'Tramp' definitions:
Definition of 'tramp'
(from WordNet)
noun
A disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: tramp, hobo, bum]
noun
A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex [syn: swinger, tramp]
noun
noun
A heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"
noun
A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule [syn: tramp steamer, tramp]
noun
A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" [syn: hike, hiking, tramp]
verb
Travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
verb
Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad, tramp]
verb
Cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks"
verb
Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment; "The gypsies roamed the woods"; "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" [syn: roll, wander, swan, stray, tramp, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]
Definition of 'Tramp'
From: GCIDE
- Tramp \Tramp\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Tramped; p. pr. & vb. n. Tramping.] [OE. trampen; akin to LG. trampen, G. trampeln, LG. & D. trappen, Dan. trampe, Sw. & Icel. trampa, Goth. anatrimpan to press upon; also to D. trap a step, G. treppe steps, stairs. Cf. Trap a kind of rock, Trape, Trip, v. i., Tread.]
- 1. To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- 3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.] --Jamieson. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tramp'
From: GCIDE
- Tramp \Tramp\, v. i. To travel; to wander; to stroll. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Tramp'
From: GCIDE
- Tramp \Tramp\, n.
- 1. A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp. --Blackie. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond. --Halliwell. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A tool for trimming hedges. [1913 Webster]
- 5. A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'tramp'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airing,
- alien,
- amble,
- Arab,
- backpack,
- baggage,
- bat around,
- beach bum,
- beachcomber,
- beggar,
- beggarly fellow,
- blighter,
- bo,
- Bowery bum,
- budmash,
- bum,
- bummer,
- cadger,
- caitiff,
- case,
- character,
- chug on,
- constitutional,
- count ties,
- crackpot,
- crank,
- defile,
- derelict,
- devil,
- divagate,
- dogie,
- down-and-out,
- down-and-outer,
- drift,
- drifter,
- drunkard,
- eccentric,
- fanatic,
- file,
- file off,
- flit,
- floater,
- footfall,
- footslog,
- footstep,
- forced march,
- gad,
- gad about,
- gallivant,
- gamin,
- gamine,
- go about,
- go on parade,
- go the rounds,
- good-for-naught,
- good-for-nothing,
- goose-step,
- guttersnipe,
- gypsy,
- hermit,
- hike,
- hit the road,
- hit the trail,
- hobo,
- homeless waif,
- human wreck,
- hussy,
- idler,
- jade,
- jaunt,
- jezebel,
- jog on,
- knock about,
- knock around,
- kook,
- landloper,
- lazzarone,
- loafer,
- lone wolf,
- loner,
- losel,
- lowlife,
- lumber,
- march,
- mauvais sujet,
- maverick,
- mean wretch,
- meander,
- mendicant,
- mendicant friar,
- mendicant order,
- meshuggenah,
- mooch,
- moocher,
- mucker,
- mudlark,
- mush,
- natural,
- no-good,
- nomadize,
- nonconformist,
- nut,
- odd fellow,
- oddball,
- oddity,
- original,
- outsider,
- panhandler,
- parade,
- pariah,
- pauvre diable,
- peg,
- peregrinate,
- pererrate,
- peripatetic journey,
- peripateticism,
- piker,
- pilgarlic,
- plod,
- plod along,
- plug,
- plug along,
- poor creature,
- poor devil,
- promenade,
- prowl,
- queer duck,
- queer fish,
- queer specimen,
- ragamuffin,
- ragman,
- ragpicker,
- ramble,
- range,
- rara avis,
- roam,
- rounder,
- rove,
- rover,
- rub on,
- run about,
- sad case,
- sad sack,
- saunter,
- schlep,
- schnorrer,
- screwball,
- scrounger,
- ski bum,
- skid-row bum,
- slattern,
- slog,
- slut,
- solitary,
- stamp,
- step,
- stiff,
- stodge,
- stomp,
- straggle,
- stray,
- street Arab,
- street arab,
- street urchin,
- stretch,
- stroll,
- strumpet,
- stump,
- sundowner,
- surf bum,
- swagman,
- swagsman,
- tatterdemalion,
- tennis bum,
- thud,
- traipse,
- tramper,
- trample,
- tread,
- trek,
- truant,
- trudge,
- turn,
- turnpiker,
- type,
- urchin,
- vag,
- vagabond,
- vagabondize,
- vagrant,
- vaurien,
- waif,
- waifs and strays,
- walk,
- walk the tracks,
- walkabout,
- walking tour,
- wander,
- wastrel,
- wayfare,
- worthless fellow,
- wretch,
- zealot