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Tramp

noun

1.

A disreputable vagrant. Synonyms: bum, hobo. "He tried to help the really down-and-out bums"

2.

A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex. Synonym: swinger.

3.

A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure). Synonyms: hiker, tramper.

4.

A heavy footfall.

5.

A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule. Synonym: tramp steamer.

6.

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure. Synonyms: hike, hiking.

verb

(past & past part. tramped; pres. part. tramping)

1.

Travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition.

2.

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud. Synonyms: footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge.

3.

Cross on foot.

4.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment. Synonyms: cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander. "Roving vagabonds" , "The wandering Jew" , "The cattle roam across the prairie" , "The laborers drift from one town to the next" , "They rolled from town to town"

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"Tramp" Quotes from Famous Books

... coast on a phantom steed, beguiling the monotony of his eternal pursuit by lassoing travellers, dragging them at the heels of his unbroken mustang until they were eventually picked up, half-strangled, by the roadside. The Padre listened attentively for the tramp of this terrible rider. But no footfall broke the stillness of the night; even the hoofs of his own mule sank noiselessly in the shifting sand. Now and then a rabbit bounded lightly by him, or a quail ran into the bushes. The melancholy call of plover from the adjoining marshes ...

— Legends and Tales • Bret Harte

... real than he himself. He had the brute instinct to hide, and the human instinct to share his fear. He poured himself a drink. Evelyn watched him with compressed lips as he drained the glass. He drew himself up out of the depths of his chair and began to tramp the floor; words leaped to his lips but he pressed them back; he was aware that only the most intangible barriers held between them; an impulse that grew in his throbbing brain seemed driving him forward to destroy these barriers; to stand before her as he was; to emerge from ...

— The Just and the Unjust • Vaughan Kester

... tramp that always reminded Damocles of the restless, angry to-and-fro pacing of the big bear in the gardens. Both father and the bear seemed to fret against fate, to suffer under a sense of injury; both seemed dangerous, fierce, admirable. Hearing ...

— Snake and Sword - A Novel • Percival Christopher Wren

... the stick between his ears and strapped it to his neck, and tied the hay to the end of the stick; then it hung a few inches beyond old Whitey's nose. The old horse took a step ahead to nibble the hay,—another,—another,—another! "Don't you wish you may get it?" said Paul. Tramp,—tramp,—tramp. Old Whitey went down the road. Paul heard him go across the bridge by the mill, and up the hill the other side of ...

— Our Young Folks, Vol 1, No. 1 - An Illustrated Magazine • Various

... sheltered doorway a tramp, with a slouch hat crammed low over a notably unwashed face, watched the outside of the new works canteen of the Sir William Rumbold Ltd., Engineering Company. Perhaps because they were workers while he was a tramp, he had an air of ...

— The Best British Short Stories of 1922 • Edward J. O'Brien and John Cournos, editors

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