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Definition of tramp in English: trampverb tramptræmp 1no object, with adverbial of direction Walk heavily or noisily. he tramped about the room Example sentencesExamples - You're tramping through the jungle - you just get a feeling of what you're looking for.
- She watched as they all tramped past her, avoiding her eye.
- Armed with a third key, I tramp up the stairs once more.
- Brad and Julia tramped up the stairs, each carrying a tray laden with food and cups of coffee.
- I tramped down the stairs after I mailed my letter.
Synonyms trudge, plod, stamp, trample, lumber, clump, clomp, stump, stomp, stumble, pad, march, thunder Scottish & Northern Irish sprauchle informal traipse, galumph - 1.1 Walk over a long distance wearily or reluctantly.
he had tramped all over the city Example sentencesExamples - I grabbed an ice pick off the sledge and tramped away from the camp towards the face of Portal Mountain.
- In September, 54 conscripts were arrested after abandoning their barracks in southern Russia and tramped nearly 35 miles to the city of Volgograd to protest at beatings by their superiors.
- As summer bled its long days into the shortening evenings of autumn, I'd tramp in reluctantly with feet squidging in wet runners.
- She and her colleagues spent the next 4 hours tramping around the mountain slopes trying to catch sight of a trogon actually calling.
- Which is just what one wants when tramping through the snow.
- He could tramp through deep snow for hours without break, bitching and singing the whole way.
Synonyms trek, trudge, slog, footslog, plod, drag oneself, walk, ramble, hike, march, roam, range, rove, backpack informal traipse, hoof it, leg it, take Shanks's pony British informal yomp - 1.2NZ Walk for long distances in rough country for recreation.
it had been ages since I had tramped with a whole pack with object she regularly tramps the New Zealand wilderness - 1.3with object Tread or stamp on.
one of the few wines still tramped by foot Example sentencesExamples - We had a good team of 7 people out this morning tramping the streets.
- After tramping the streets for two days he had still not been able to find any relatives or friends.
- Immediately, they began to see signs of the enemies' presence… grass that had been tramped by many feet, ruts from wagons, bits of discarded debris.
- But he had to tramp the dark streets for three whole nights before anyone would rob him.
Synonyms trample, tread on, step on, stamp on squash, crush, flatten, pulp
noun tramptræmp 1A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar. Example sentencesExamples - I turn around quickly and face what seems to be an old tramp.
- Armies of transient laborers filled seasonal jobs throughout the country, creating the great era of tramps and hoboes, 1870 to 1920.
- He associated with tramps and beggars, whores and ruffians.
- I had to face the drunken tramps and the scorn of those wannabe policemen and women: the ticket inspectors.
- Of course he was in exile and did have a great affinity for those kinds of characters, for tramps and vagrants and displaced, placeless people.
- Why wouldn't my attention be attracted by that man, since he was a beggar or a tramp, a veritable rainbow of dark-colored rags?
- My search for tramps has taken a side trip into terra incognita.
- In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts.
- I noticed he was wearing those fingerless gloves, usually a bastion of the homeless tramp.
- First a drunken tramp got on and started bawling and shouting and generally upsetting people.
- Secondly, how come on the day of the royal visit there wasn't one tramp or beggar to be found on the street?
- But then tramps and vagrants manage pretty well without any of those, although one couldn't say most look happy about it.
- Headway has also been made on getting the homeless off the streets as the amount of tramps and beggars seems minimal in comparison to major UK cities.
- Deserters from foreign armies, prisoners of war, criminals, vagabonds, tramps, and people whom the crimps had entrapped by fraud and violence were the bulk of the regiments.
- The first batch, comprising of 14 children, were handed over by the district administration as part of their drive to clear the town of beggars and tramps.
- The homeless tramp sleeps peacefully on the bench.
- The playground is now taken over by tramps and beggars.
- The pair of alcoholic tramps started traveling together near Kansas City in 1998 and eventually made their way to Minneapolis.
- One of them is the guy the old tramp described.
- After the tramp had washed his feet and his socks, he tip-toed over the gravel to the grass.
Synonyms vagrant, vagabond, homeless person, derelict, down-and-out itinerant, traveller, drifter, wanderer, person of no fixed address, beachcomber ne'er do well, good for nothing outcast, pariah beggar, mendicant North American hobo, bum Australian/New Zealand bagman, sundowner, swagman New Zealand streety informal crusty, bag lady British informal dosser Australian/New Zealand informal derro 2in singular The sound of heavy steps. the tramp of marching feet Example sentencesExamples - Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
- The tramp of those pale feet might interrupt the flow of his patronising patter.
- The hush swept across the great room as those near the entrance heard the first tramp of heavy feet.
- As the march moved off everyone knew instinctively that time was running out and that the guns were increasingly silencing the chants and the tramp of feet.
- There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
Synonyms footstep, step, footfall, tread, stamp, stomp, stomping 3in singular A long walk, typically a tiring one. she was freshly returned from a tramp round Norwich Example sentencesExamples - It is really a fine balance running a 26 km two-day tramp in under four hours.
Synonyms trek, trudge, slog, hike, march, walk, constitutional, ramble, roam, wander informal traipse British informal yomp - 3.1NZ A long-distance recreational walk in rough country.
this is perhaps the most popular tramp in Canterbury
4usually as modifier A cargo vessel that carries goods between many different ports rather than sailing a fixed route. Example sentencesExamples - Mysteriously, after the first year, the girl disappeared - some said to work on a tramp steamer in the North Atlantic - and we often wondered whatever happened to her.
- A good question, and in reply we ask you to imagine a tramp steamer packed to the gunwales with volumes one, three and five as we speak chugging its way across the Atlantic.
- The Andromeda rescues some Wayist refugees traveling on board a tramp freighter.
- When I left school in 1959 and joined the Merchant Navy, the cabin on a tramp steamer seemed like my first real home.
- It will appear to be just another tramp freighter, but is actually the disguised personal vessel of Lord Isloth.
- Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
- It is worth remembering that the average size of steamers in the British tramp fleet was only 3,500 gross tons as late as 1910.
- Uncle Julian hit the road before he got out of his teens, right in the middle of the Depression, and worked his way across the Atlantic as an oiler's pimp on a tramp steamer.
- The group has 400 vessels comprising oil tankers, tramps, passenger ships, container vessels and special cargo ships.
- British shipowners, however, had been slow to build tankers and in the tramp traders had lagged behind in adopting diesel propulsion.
- Carr recounts the little-known World War II story about the survivors of a tramp steamer sunk in the summer of 1940.
- The Dream was a deceptively slow looking tramp freighter about 50 meters long and twenty meters across at her widest point.
- Having transferred to an old Lebanese tramp steamer, he became the ship's doctor, treating women who fainted in the heat.
- Rather than coming from academia, he began by running away to sea to become a junior officer on the tramp freighter Benlawers.
- When this tramp steamer went down all 42 on board were drowned, making this one of the worst WW2 shipping losses not caused by enemy action.
- Poorer and sadder, the couple reunite and have to make their way home on a tramp steamer.
5North American derogatory, informal A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships. Example sentencesExamples - I would be damned if I was going to stand here and watch this tramp flirt with him.
- I knew I shouldn't have trusted that little tramp with our secrets!
- She is nothing more than a tramp that sleeps around.
- Nevertheless, I will not fear some tramp that basically grabbed my heart and stepped on it as if it was some squish toy.
- I hold this household together and you better pay me back for what I've done for you and that tramp mother of yours.
- I rather thought you were more than a match for that little rebel tramp.
- She's had a lot of first kisses this year, the little tramp.
- ‘You dirty tramp,’ she screeched, her eyes bugging out.
- What on earth was that little tramp yammering about now?
Synonyms slut, promiscuous woman, prostitute, whore 6A metal plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging. - 6.1 The top of the blade of a spade.
Derivatives adjective Being of a trampish disposition, the man was accustomed to spend most of his time moving about the country with his sons. Example sentencesExamples - The young lady should be praised for her very unmodern modesty as regards her front garden, not vilified as some trampish show-off.
- This is a big trend in our society now, people who are really rich, millionaires and that; they dress down and look kinda trampish.
- Yet he moved his pieces with a dexterity which belied his smelly, scruffy attire and trampish demeanour.
- An old trampish man shuffles backwards and forwards onto the stage.
adjective ˈtrampiˈtræmpi 1Characteristic of a vagrant or beggar; scruffy. they are suspicious of foreigners, especially trampy backpackers Example sentencesExamples - Even if they managed to sharpen up their trampy image, no sartorial makeover could disguise the fact they wear their broken hearts on their collective sleeve.
- Naturally, he's chosen the buxom, trampy monkey.
- I want the people to see that it's not a trampy scene.
- a trampy, manipulative opera star
- short shorts can sometimes look pretty trampy
2North American informal (with reference to a woman) sexually promiscuous or provocative in a way that is considered in bad taste.
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): probably of Low German origin. The noun dates from the mid 17th century. Rhymes amp, camp, champ, clamp, cramp, damp, encamp, gamp, lamp, ramp, samp, scamp, stamp, tamp, vamp Definition of tramp in US English: trampverbtramptræmp [no object]1Walk heavily or noisily. he tramped around the room Example sentencesExamples - Brad and Julia tramped up the stairs, each carrying a tray laden with food and cups of coffee.
- You're tramping through the jungle - you just get a feeling of what you're looking for.
- I tramped down the stairs after I mailed my letter.
- She watched as they all tramped past her, avoiding her eye.
- Armed with a third key, I tramp up the stairs once more.
- 1.1 Walk through or over a place wearily or reluctantly and for long distances.
we have tramped miles over mountain and moorland Example sentencesExamples - He could tramp through deep snow for hours without break, bitching and singing the whole way.
- As summer bled its long days into the shortening evenings of autumn, I'd tramp in reluctantly with feet squidging in wet runners.
- In September, 54 conscripts were arrested after abandoning their barracks in southern Russia and tramped nearly 35 miles to the city of Volgograd to protest at beatings by their superiors.
- Which is just what one wants when tramping through the snow.
- She and her colleagues spent the next 4 hours tramping around the mountain slopes trying to catch sight of a trogon actually calling.
- I grabbed an ice pick off the sledge and tramped away from the camp towards the face of Portal Mountain.
- 1.2with object Tread or stamp on.
one of the few wines still tramped by foot Example sentencesExamples - We had a good team of 7 people out this morning tramping the streets.
- After tramping the streets for two days he had still not been able to find any relatives or friends.
- But he had to tramp the dark streets for three whole nights before anyone would rob him.
- Immediately, they began to see signs of the enemies' presence… grass that had been tramped by many feet, ruts from wagons, bits of discarded debris.
nountramptræmp 1A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar. Example sentencesExamples - The first batch, comprising of 14 children, were handed over by the district administration as part of their drive to clear the town of beggars and tramps.
- My search for tramps has taken a side trip into terra incognita.
- Headway has also been made on getting the homeless off the streets as the amount of tramps and beggars seems minimal in comparison to major UK cities.
- Secondly, how come on the day of the royal visit there wasn't one tramp or beggar to be found on the street?
- But then tramps and vagrants manage pretty well without any of those, although one couldn't say most look happy about it.
- Armies of transient laborers filled seasonal jobs throughout the country, creating the great era of tramps and hoboes, 1870 to 1920.
- In this category fall some of the adaptive activities of psychotics, autists, pariahs, outcasts, vagrants, vagabonds, tramps, chronic drunkards and drug addicts.
- I noticed he was wearing those fingerless gloves, usually a bastion of the homeless tramp.
- The homeless tramp sleeps peacefully on the bench.
- I turn around quickly and face what seems to be an old tramp.
- Why wouldn't my attention be attracted by that man, since he was a beggar or a tramp, a veritable rainbow of dark-colored rags?
- I had to face the drunken tramps and the scorn of those wannabe policemen and women: the ticket inspectors.
- He associated with tramps and beggars, whores and ruffians.
- Of course he was in exile and did have a great affinity for those kinds of characters, for tramps and vagrants and displaced, placeless people.
- The pair of alcoholic tramps started traveling together near Kansas City in 1998 and eventually made their way to Minneapolis.
- The playground is now taken over by tramps and beggars.
- One of them is the guy the old tramp described.
- First a drunken tramp got on and started bawling and shouting and generally upsetting people.
- Deserters from foreign armies, prisoners of war, criminals, vagabonds, tramps, and people whom the crimps had entrapped by fraud and violence were the bulk of the regiments.
- After the tramp had washed his feet and his socks, he tip-toed over the gravel to the grass.
Synonyms vagrant, vagabond, homeless person, derelict, down-and-out 2in singular The sound of heavy steps, typically of several people. the tramp of marching feet Example sentencesExamples - There were no cartographers, no global positioning system, apart from the tramp of human feet in solemn perambulations.
- As the march moved off everyone knew instinctively that time was running out and that the guns were increasingly silencing the chants and the tramp of feet.
- The tramp of those pale feet might interrupt the flow of his patronising patter.
- Blue armour was visible, and the tramp of armoured feet was just audible, even above the roaring storm.
- The hush swept across the great room as those near the entrance heard the first tramp of heavy feet.
Synonyms footstep, step, footfall, tread, stamp, stomp, stomping 3in singular A long walk, typically a tiring one. they start off on a tramp from Roxbury to New York Example sentencesExamples - It is really a fine balance running a 26 km two-day tramp in under four hours.
Synonyms trek, trudge, slog, hike, march, walk, constitutional, ramble, roam, wander 4usually as modifier A cargo vessel that carries goods among many different ports rather than sailing a fixed route. Example sentencesExamples - It is worth remembering that the average size of steamers in the British tramp fleet was only 3,500 gross tons as late as 1910.
- Having transferred to an old Lebanese tramp steamer, he became the ship's doctor, treating women who fainted in the heat.
- Uncle Julian hit the road before he got out of his teens, right in the middle of the Depression, and worked his way across the Atlantic as an oiler's pimp on a tramp steamer.
- When this tramp steamer went down all 42 on board were drowned, making this one of the worst WW2 shipping losses not caused by enemy action.
- Carr recounts the little-known World War II story about the survivors of a tramp steamer sunk in the summer of 1940.
- When I left school in 1959 and joined the Merchant Navy, the cabin on a tramp steamer seemed like my first real home.
- The Andromeda rescues some Wayist refugees traveling on board a tramp freighter.
- The Dream was a deceptively slow looking tramp freighter about 50 meters long and twenty meters across at her widest point.
- Rather than coming from academia, he began by running away to sea to become a junior officer on the tramp freighter Benlawers.
- A good question, and in reply we ask you to imagine a tramp steamer packed to the gunwales with volumes one, three and five as we speak chugging its way across the Atlantic.
- Appropriately, he spends most of his days on tramp steamers, skiffs and barges.
- British shipowners, however, had been slow to build tankers and in the tramp traders had lagged behind in adopting diesel propulsion.
- Poorer and sadder, the couple reunite and have to make their way home on a tramp steamer.
- The group has 400 vessels comprising oil tankers, tramps, passenger ships, container vessels and special cargo ships.
- It will appear to be just another tramp freighter, but is actually the disguised personal vessel of Lord Isloth.
- Mysteriously, after the first year, the girl disappeared - some said to work on a tramp steamer in the North Atlantic - and we often wondered whatever happened to her.
5North American derogatory, informal A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships. Example sentencesExamples - I hold this household together and you better pay me back for what I've done for you and that tramp mother of yours.
- I knew I shouldn't have trusted that little tramp with our secrets!
- I would be damned if I was going to stand here and watch this tramp flirt with him.
- What on earth was that little tramp yammering about now?
- Nevertheless, I will not fear some tramp that basically grabbed my heart and stepped on it as if it was some squish toy.
- I rather thought you were more than a match for that little rebel tramp.
- She is nothing more than a tramp that sleeps around.
- She's had a lot of first kisses this year, the little tramp.
- ‘You dirty tramp,’ she screeched, her eyes bugging out.
Synonyms slut, promiscuous woman, prostitute, whore 6A metal plate protecting the sole of a boot. - 6.1 The top of the blade of a spade.
Origin Late Middle English (as a verb): probably of Low German origin. The noun dates from the mid 17th century. |