Tramp

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.
  • verb-intransitive. To travel on foot; hike.
  • verb-intransitive. To wander about aimlessly.
  • v. To traverse on foot: tramp the fields.
  • v. To tread down; trample: tramp down snow.
  • n. A heavy footfall.
  • n. The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.
  • n. A walking trip; a hike.
  • n. One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.
  • n. A prostitute.
  • n. A person regarded as promiscuous.
  • n. Nautical A tramp steamer.
  • n. A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A homeless person, a vagabond.
  • n. A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
  • n. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
  • n. A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
  • n. Short for trampoline, especially a very small one.
  • v. To walk with heavy footsteps.
  • v. To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
  • v. To hitchhike
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • v. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
  • v. To travel or wander through.
  • v. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
  • verb-intransitive. To travel; to wander; to stroll.
  • n. A foot journey or excursion.
  • n. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
  • n. The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
  • n. A tool for trimming hedges.
  • n. A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To run (a tramp steamer), taking on merchandise at one port and selling it wherever possible or carrying freight anywhere desired.
  • To sail on a tramp steamer.
  • To tread under foot; trample.
  • To tread (clothes) in water, so as to cleanse or scour them.
  • To travel over on foot: as, to tramp a country.
  • To walk, especially to walk with heavy step; tread; march; go on foot.
  • To go about as a vagrant or vagabond.
  • n. The sound made by the feet in walking or marching.
  • n. An excursion or journey on foot; a walk.
  • n. A plate of iron worn by ditchers, etc., under the hollow of the foot, to save the shoe in pressing the spade into the earth.
  • n. An instrument for trimming hedges.
  • n. An itinerant mechanic: same as tramper, 2.
  • n. An idle vagrant; a homeless vagabond. Also tramper.
  • n. A freight-vessel that does not run in any regular line, but takes a cargo wherever the shippers desire: also used attributively, as in tramp steamer. Also called ocean tramp.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a heavy footfall
  • v. move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
  • v. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
  • n. a disreputable vagrant
  • n. a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
  • v. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
  • n. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
  • n. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
  • v. cross on foot
  • n. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
  • Verb Form
    tramped    tramping    tramps   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    footstep    footfall    step    steamship    steamer    hike    cover    cut through    get over    track   
    Form
    tramped    tramping    trample    tromp   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    trample    travel    wander    stroll    tramper    go    walk    hike    plod    trudge   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Camp    Champ    amp    camp    champ    clamp    cramp    damp    decamp    encamp   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    clatter    tread    thud    march    beggar    vagabond    rumble    footstep    shout    scrape