tramp
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: trămp
ipa: /tɹæmp/
rhymes: -æmp
Forms: form: tramps
Etymology: From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp.
Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
Senses: examples: text: [S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.
ref: 1914 November, Louis Joseph Vance, “An Outsider […]”, in Munsey’s Magazine, volume LIII, number II, New York, N.Y.: The Frank A[ndrew] Munsey Company, […], published 1915, →OCLC, chapter III (Accessory After the Fact), page 382, column 2:
synonyms: word: bum
word: hobo
word: vagabond
word: bum
word: casual
word: clochard
raw_tags: in France
word: derelict
word: dero
word: down-and-out
word: down-and-outer
word: drifter
word: epithite
word: floater
word: gadling
word: hobo
word: Jack out of doors
word: knight of the road
word: landleaper
word: landloper
word: landlouper
word: nomad
word: paker
word: palliard
word: pike
word: piker
word: ranger
word: rogue
word: rolling stone
word: rough sleeper
word: scatterling
word: skelder
word: skell
word: stroller
word: stumblebum
word: swagman
word: swaggie
word: toerag
word: tramp
word: truant
word: vagabond
word: vagrant
word: wanderer
word: waif
word: yagger
glosses: A homeless person; a vagabond.
examples: text: I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.
text: Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.
synonyms: word: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise.
word: 304
word: alley cat
word: alleycat
word: amorette
word: amoret
word: amorosa
word: article
word: Athanasian wench
word: blowsabella
word: bop
word: chippy
word: cocotte
word: cockslut
word: cockwhore
word: crumpet
word: cum dumpster
word: cum guzzler
word: cumhole
word: cumslut
word: cumwhore
word: Cyprian
word: demimondaine
word: doxy
word: drab
word: eager beaver
word: Essex girl
word: flirt-gill
word: floogy
word: floosie
word: floosy
word: floozie
word: floozy
word: fornicator
word: fornicatour
word: fornicatress
word: fornicatrix
word: fuckstress
word: Fulham virgin
word: geebag
word: giglot
word: gillian
word: gill
word: good-time girl
word: grim
word: grisette
word: harlot
word: ho bag
word: ho-bag
word: hoe bag
word: hoe-bag
word: hoe
word: hoochie mama
word: hoochie
word: hood rat
word: ho
word: hussy
word: jade
word: jay
word: jillflirt
word: lady of light virtue
word: LBFM
word: light-o'-love
word: light-of-love
word: lightskirt
word: little brown fucking machine
word: loose woman
word: lorette
word: mab
word: manizer
word: minx
word: moll
word: mort wap-apace
word: nymphomaniac
word: painted Jezebel
word: puta
word: puzzel
word: quean
word: Quicumque vult
word: quiff
word: rig
word: scag
word: scrubber
word: skank
word: skettle
word: sket
word: skit
word: slag
word: slapper
word: slattern
word: sloven
word: slutbag
word: slut
word: stale
word: streel
word: strumpet
word: sweet cheeks
word: tartlet
word: tart
word: thotty
word: thot
word: town bicycle
word: town bike
word: tramp
word: treddle
word: trollop
word: trull
word: village bicycle
word: village bike
word: wagon
word: waistcoateer
word: wanton
word: wench
word: whore
glosses: A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
examples: text: I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
ref: 1888, Robert Louis Stevenson, The Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson; Volume 2, chapter 9:
text: Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
ref: 1919, Charles Fort, The Book of the Damned, chapter 10:
text: Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
ref: 1924, George Sutherland, Texas Transport Terminal Company v. New Orleans: Dissent Brandeis:
text: Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.
ref: 1950 July, J. C. Mertens, “By the "Taurus Express" to Baghdad”, in Railway Magazine, page 435:
text: “Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
ref: 1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story, chapter Six:
glosses: Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
examples: text: I got in with the American Fur Company and set out for another tramp to trade with the Indians on the North and South Platte Rivers.
ref: 1861, E. J. Guerin, Mountain Charley, page 40:
text: The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
ref: 1968, John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois, page 75:
text: Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you′re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp up Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
ref: 2005, Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet, page 734:
text: The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
ref: 2006, Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer′s Australia from $60 a Day, page 186:
synonyms: bushwalk
hike
ramble
trek
glosses: A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
examples: text: Your last delivery of copper ore contained half a hundredweight of tramp metal.
ref: 2015 September 29 (last accessed), Mining Magazine, archived from the original on 07 Mar 2016:
glosses: Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
raw_tags: in apposition
glosses: A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
glosses: 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.
Derived terms: ocean tramp
railroad tramp
rubber tramp
saddle tramp
tramp ant
tramp art
tramp chair
tramp data
tramp iron
tramp juice
tramp-pick
tramp stamp
tramp steamer
tramp trade