to walk heavily or firmly across or through (a place); march or trudge
3. (intransitive)
to wander about as a vagabond or tramp
4. (transitive)
to make (a journey) or traverse (a place) on foot, esp laboriously or wearily
to tramp the streets in search of work
5. (transitive)
to tread or trample
6. (intransitive) New Zealand
to walk for sport or recreation, esp in the bush
noun
7.
a person who travels about on foot, usually with no permanent home, living by begging or doing casual work
8.
a long hard walk; hike
9.
a heavy or rhythmic step or tread
10.
the sound of heavy treading
11. Also called: tramp steamer
a merchant ship that does not run between ports on a regular schedule but carries cargo wherever the shippers desire
12. derogatory, slang, mainly US and Canadian
a prostitute or promiscuous girl or woman
13.
an iron plate on the sole of a boot
clochard in American English
(ˈklɔˈʃaʀ)
French
noun
a tramp or vagrant
Word origin
Fr < clocher, to limp (< VL cloppicare < L cloppus, lame) + -ard, -ard
clochard in American English
(ˈklouʃərd)
noun
a beggar; vagrant; tramp
Word origin
[1940–45; ‹ F, der. of clocher to limp ‹ L clopus lame]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airlift, debrief, redline, set-aside, snorkel
Examples of 'clochard' in a sentence
clochard
It was the local clochard who had leapt into action from his roadside bench.