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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
tramp
I.noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
old
▪ I kept falling asleep at the wrong time like an old tramp.
▪ The old tramp has served his purpose, but beyond this point it would not be wise to go.
▪ In front of them, leaning against the stump of a tree, was an old, unshaven tramp.
▪ Zali sloped along like an old tramp.
▪ He remembered an old tramp he used to watch down by the tube station near where he lived.
■ VERB
look
▪ But even with this restricted view, he didn't really look like a tramp.
▪ I think they look like tramps or else like footballers.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ An old tramp was sleeping under Waterloo Bridge, his coat wrapped tight to keep out the cold.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But what he wasn't capable of was killing that tramp.
▪ I kept falling asleep at the wrong time like an old tramp.
▪ Now, their own story-teller had shown that they were no mere bunch of tramps.
▪ The old tramp has served his purpose, but beyond this point it would not be wise to go.
▪ This tramp had money, real money and good furniture to show for her labours.
▪ Zali sloped along like an old tramp.
II.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
around
▪ Throughout Orwell's Wigan Pier you have a strong sense of him tramping around on foot.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Dozens, hundreds, of silhouettes tramp down the road in silence.
▪ Hubert wanted to tramp across as many mountains as possible, and he assumed that Barbara wanted to do the same.
▪ In that time some twenty thousand people would tramp round the marked routes or roost in one of the twenty grandstands.
▪ More folk tramp along the sandy track with their paraphernalia.
▪ Their feet made loud sucking noises as they tramped over to the burn.
▪ Throughout Orwell's Wigan Pier you have a strong sense of him tramping around on foot.
▪ We tramped on in the darkness.
▪ You can also tramp the Earthquake Trail, which tracks evidence of geologic activity.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Tramp

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.

  2. To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.

  3. To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water. [Scot.]
    --Jamieson.

Tramp

Tramp \Tramp\, v. i. To travel; to wander; to stroll.

Tramp

Tramp \Tramp\, n.

  1. A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
    --Blackie.

  2. A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
    --Halliwell.

  3. The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
    --Sir W. Scott.

  4. A tool for trimming hedges.

  5. A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
tramp

"person who wanders about, idle vagrant, vagabond," 1660s, from tramp (v). Sense of "steamship which takes cargo wherever it can be traded" (as opposed to one running a regular line) is attested from c.1880. The meaning "promiscuous woman" is from 1922. Sense of "a long, toilsome walk" is from 1786.

tramp

late 14c., "walk heavily, stamp," from Middle Low German trampen "to stamp," from Proto-Germanic *tremp- (cognates: Danish trampe, Swedish trampa "to tramp, stamp," Gothic ana-trimpan "to press upon"), from PIE *der- (1) "to run, walk, step" (see tread (v.)). Related: Tramped; tramping.

Wiktionary
tramp

n. 1 (context pejorative English) A homeless person, a vagabond. 2 (context pejorative English) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut. 3 Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published port of call. 4 (context Australia New Zealand English) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness are

  1. 5 (short for trampoline dot= English), especially a very small one. v

  2. 1 To walk with heavy footsteps. 2 To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain). 3 To hitchhike 4 (context transitive English) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample. 5 (context transitive English) To travel or wander through. 6 (context transitive Scotland English) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

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WordNet
tramp

  1. n. a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" [syn: hobo, bum]

  2. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex [syn: swinger]

  3. a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) [syn: hiker, tramper]

  4. a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots"

  5. a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule [syn: tramp steamer]

  6. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure [syn: hike]

tramp

  1. v. travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"

  2. walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" [syn: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad]

  3. cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks"

  4. 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, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond]

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Wikipedia
Tramp

A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round. The word tramp became a common way to refer to such people in 19th-century Britain and America.

Tramp (band)

Tramp were a British blues band, active during the late 1960s and early 1970s on an intermittent basis. This on/off activity and the loose, transient nature of the band's line-up were reflected in the group's name.

The line-up centred on the brother-sister pairing of Dave Kelly and Jo Ann Kelly, and included various members of Fleetwood Mac, plus various session musicians. The band released two albums; Tramp in 1969, and Put A Record On in 1974. All members participated in many other projects before, after and even during their time with Tramp.

Tramp (nightclub)

Tramp is a private, members-only nightclub located on Jermyn Street in central London, England. Founded in 1969 by Johnny Gold with business partner Oscar Lerman, and Bill Ofner (Luishek) Tramp is considered to be one of the most exclusive member's clubs in the world and is a regular haunt for celebrities. It was sold by founder Gold in 2003.

Tramp (The Stranglers song)

"Tramp" is a song included as a track on the Stranglers' sixth studio album, La Folie. "Tramp" was originally thought to be the ideal follow-up to their Top Ten hit single, " Golden Brown". However Jean-Jacques Burnel convinced fellow band members that another track " La Folie" was a much better choice. This backfired when "La Folie" peaked at No. 47 in the UK Singles Chart.

Tramp (disambiguation)

A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as an itinerant vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking.

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Tramp (Lowell Fulson song)

"Tramp" is a soul blues song first recorded by Lowell Fulson in 1967. It was written by Fulson and Jimmy McCracklin. The song became a hit, reaching #5 in the Billboard R&B chart and #52 in the pop Billboard Hot 100 chart. Since the original recording, "Tramp" has been recorded by several R&B and other artists.

Tramp (album)

Tramp is the third album by American singer–songwriter Sharon Van Etten, released on February 7, 2012.

For the recording, Sharon collaborated with Zach Condon, Wye Oak’s Jenn Wasner, Julianna Barwick, Walkmen's Matt Barrick, Thomas Bartlett, and Aaron Dessner. Dessner also produced the album and provided the studio.

The first track to be released as a single was "Serpents", featuring Aaron and Bryce Dessner, Barwick, Wasner, and Bartlett.

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Usage examples of "tramp".

With officers, sergeants, and corporals amplifying the simple command, the 47th North Carolina became a long gray serpent that wound its way out of the encampment, as if shedding a confining winter skin, and tramped north up the road toward Orange Court House.

The men of Ares were so very body-oriented, so very out-of-doorsy, so very much into tramping and swimming and climbing, and overall heartiness, so very much unaccustomed to sedentary pursuits that they did not consider the possibility of archival technology.

He tramped, begged and stole, lied or threatened as the case might warrant, and drank to besottedness whenever he got the chance.

I told how Mollie, Betty, Amy and Grace, four girls of Deepdale, a town in the heart of New York State, organized a little club for camping and tramping.

Torricelli nephew, such a snot, and Paternoster with his incredible nose and the tramps cooking dinner in the rain in the Place de la Contrescarpe.

Battersby piewipes was very like looking for a needle in a bundle of hay: besides it might have been found and taken by some tramp, or by a magpie of which there were many in the neighbourhood, so that after a week or ten days the search was discontinued, and the unpleasant fact had to be faced that Ernest must have another watch, another knife, and a small sum of pocket money.

Just at this moment a plashy tramp by the side of the bridge caught the sensitive ear of Ichabod.

Then followed various untimed periods, during which animal life rose by degrees from mollusk and jellyfish, by plesiosaurus and pterodactyl, horrible monsters, hundreds of feet in length, whose tramp crashed through the woods, or whose flight loaded the groaning air, to the dolphin and the whale in the sea, the horse and the lion on the land, and the eagle, the nightingale, and the bird of paradise in the air.

On the nineteenth of April, as she did every year, Lily pulled on her rubber boots and tramped through the woods to the further swamp to find the first polliwogs, which were never not there, on the nineteenth, freshly hatched into the bell-clear water.

A man who had missed the last train from Meiros and had been forced to tramp the ten miles between Meiros and Porth seems to have been the first to hear it.

The chief of the Tramps had a wonderful calculating eye in the observation of distances and the nature of the land, as he proved by his discovery of untried passes in the higher Alps, and he had no mercy for pursy followers.

I am one of the dispossessed, a sansculotte, a proletarian, or, in simpler phraseology addressed to your understanding, a tramp.

Probably some street tramp or shelterless American draft avoider trying to get out of the damp cold of night.

There was Borrow, who, as an old man, was tramping solitarily in the fields of Norfolk, as earlier he wandered alone in wild Wales or wilder Spain.

He marched with a tramp as steady as a galley drum to the sleeping chamber where she was confined, the blood rings of his waist chain jangling of victory, his sheathed spatha rocking in rhythm.