tramp

Plural: tramps

Noun

• a disreputable vagrant
  • "a homeless tramp"
• a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
• a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
• a heavy footfall
  • "the tramp of military boots"
• a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
• a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
• A homeless person; a vagabond.
• A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
• Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
• A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
• Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
• A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
• Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.
• Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.

Verb

Verb Forms: tramped, tramping, tramps

• To walk with a heavy, steady step, often over long distances.
• travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
  • "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
• walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
• cross on foot
  • "We had to tramp the creeks"
• move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
• To walk with heavy footsteps.
• To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
• To hitchhike.
• To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
• To travel or wander through.
• To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
• To scram; begone.
• To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.

Examples

• Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.
• He had to TRAMP through his mental dictionary to find the perfect seven-letter word.
• I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.
• to tramp the country
• We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.

Synonyms

bum, cast, drift, footslog, hike, hiker, hiking, hobo, pad, plod, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, slog, stray, swan, swinger, tramp steamer, tramper, trudge, vagabond, wander, 304, Athanasian wench, Cyprian, Essex girl, Fulham virgin, Jack out of doors, LBFM, NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., Quicumque vult, alley cat, alleycat, amoret, amorette, amorosa, article, blowsabella, bop, bushwalk, casual, chippy, clochard, cockslut, cockwhore, cocotte, crumpet, cum dumpster, cumguzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, demimondaine, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, doxy, drab, drifter, eager beaver, epithite, flirt-gill, floater, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, fuckstress, gadling, geebag, giglot, gill, gillian, good-time girl, grim, grisette, harlot, ho, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoochie, hoochie mama, hood rat, hussy, jade, jay, jillflirt, knight of the road, lady of light virtue, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, mab, manizer, minx, moll, mort wap-apace, nomad, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, paker, palliard, pike, piker, puta, puzzel, quean, quiff, ranger, rig, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scag, scatterling, scrubber, skank, skelder, skell, sket, skettle, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slut, slutbag, stale, streel, stroller, strumpet, stumblebum, swaggie, swagman, sweet cheeks, tart, tartlet, thot, thotty, toerag, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trek, trollop, truant, trull, vagrant, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waif, waistcoateer, wanderer, wanton, wench, whore, yagger

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