Tramp

Definition: Tramp

Tramp

Noun

1. A disreputable vagrant.

2. A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex.

3. A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure).

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

5. A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule.

6. A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.

Verb

1. Travel on on foot, esp. on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado".

2. Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Donkeys that plodded wearily in a circle around a gin" D.H. Lawrence.

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tramp" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Transportation

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

TRAMP

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Tramp

Commonalty

Beggar, gaberlunzie, muckworm, mudlark, sans culotte, raff, tatterdemalion, caitiff, ragamuffin, Pariah, outcast of society, tramp, vagabond, bezonian, panhandler, sundowner, chiffonnier, Cinderella, cinderwench, scrub, jade; gossoon.

Journey

Walk, march, step, tread, pace, plod, wend, go by shank's mare; promenade; trudge, tramp; stalk, stride, straddle, strut, foot it, hoof it, stump, bundle, bowl along, toddle; paddle; tread a path.

Journey, excursion, expedition, tour, trip, grand tour, circuit, peregrination, discursion, ramble, pilgrimage, hajj, trek, course, ambulation, march, walk, promenade, stroll, saunter, tramp, jog trot, turn, stalk, perambulation; noctambulation, noctambulism; somnambulism; outing, ride, drive, airing, jaunt.

Motion

Adverb: under way; on the move, on the wing, on the tramp, on the march.

Petitioner

Pauper, homeless person, hobo, bum, tramp, bindle stiff, bo, knight of the road (poverty); hippie, flower child; hard core unemployed; welfare client, welfare case.

Traveler

Tourist, excursionist, explorer, adventurer, mountaineer, hiker, backpacker, Alpine Club; peregrinator, wanderer, rover, straggler, rambler; bird of passage; gadabout, gadling; vagrant, scatterling, landloper, waifs and estrays, wastrel, foundling; loafer; tramp, tramper; vagabond, nomad, Bohemian, gypsy, Arab, Wandering Jew, Hadji, pilgrim, palmer; peripatetic; somnambulist, emigrant, fugitive, refugee; beach comber, booly; globegirdler, globetrotter; vagrant, hobo, night walker, sleep walker; noctambulist, runabout, straphanger, swagman, swagsman; trecker, trekker, zingano, zingaro.

Crosswords: Tramp

Czech (hiker, rambler), French (tramp), German (tramp), Swedish (clump, tread).

I'm sorry all I heard was blah blah blah I'm a dirty tramp. (Mr. Deeds; writing credit: Clarence Budington Kell; Robert Riskin)

She was a tramp. (Strangers on a Train; writing credit: Raymond Chandler; Whitfield Cook)

I'd rather you go bald to school than looking like a tramp! (Mommie Dearest; writing credit: Christina Crawford; Robert Getchell)

Little two door tramp. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

I'd call her a tramp, were I one to judge (Ally McBeal; writing credit: Henri Vernes)

With the mystery tramp, but now you realize (Like a Rolling Stone; performing artist: Bob Dylan)

Lookin' like a tramp, like a video vamp (Pour Some Sugar On Me; performing artist: Def Leppard)

Like a tramp in the night (TOUCH ME (I WANT YOUR BODY); performing artist: Samantha Fox)

Teenage Tramp (1973)

Saddle Tramp Women (1972)

Tramp oder der einzige und unvergleichliche Lenny Jacobsen (1968)

Shanty Tramp (1967)

Alley Tramp (1966)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Tramp Abroad (Konemann Classics) (reference)

• Charlie the Tramp (reference)

• Jack London on the Road: The Tramp Diary and Other Hobo Writings (reference)

• Tramp Art: A Folk Art Phenomenon (reference)

• Tramp for the Lord (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Lady and The Tramp (reference)

• Royal Tramp 2 (reference)

• The Lady and the Tramp (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Lady and the Tramp [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Saddle Tramp (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

The ragged tramp began to beg in most piteous terms. Credit: Library of Congress.

On the tramp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tramp with hat in hand standing before astonished woman, her house, and dog. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tramp begging food. Credit: Library of Congress.

Fruit tramp. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Jungle George," veteran fruit tramp at work in the packinghouse of Deerfield, Florida. Credit: Library of Congress.

Jack Neill, "migratory fruit tramp," on banks of Pulah Creek near Winters, California. He owns one acre subsistence farm near Porterville. Represented migratory laborers as speaker at Commonwealth Club, San Francisco (See published "Transactions" of the C. Credit: Library of Congress.

Washington, Yakima Valley, Toppenish. Cheap auto camp for migratory workers waiting for the opening of the hop season. Old fruit tramp (20378-C) lives in this camp. Credit: Library of Congress.

Half length image of bearded tramp in hat, touching finger to nose with full length image of same tramp to the left. Credit: Library of Congress.

Tramp smoking cigar with cane over arm. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "tramp": be on the tramp ♦ on the tramp ♦ town tramp ♦ tramp down ♦ tramp element ♦ tramp in ♦ tramp it ♦ tramp ship ♦ tramp steamer ♦ tramp vessel ♦ tramp voyage. Additional references.

Beginning with "tramp": tramp-art, tramp-like.

Ending with "tramp": pretend-tramp.

Albanian

transportues (carrier, conveyer, transporter), zhurmë hapash (footstep), shëtitje e gjatë e të lodhshme, prostitutë (bawd, call girl, drab, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, Moll, Molly, night hawk, night walker, prostitute, streetwalker, trollop, trull), endem (blunder, divagate, drift, gad about, itinerate, muck about, range, roam, traipse, trapes, vagabondize, wander), endacak (bum, errant, gadabout, gadder, gipsy, goer, gypsy, hobo, landloper, nomad, prowler, Ranger, rangy, rover, runabout, runagate, sansculotte, staggerer, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), eci me hap të rëndë. (various references)

Arabic 

‏سفينة شحن غير نظامية, ‏إجتاز سيرا على الأقدام, ‏المسافر سيرا على الأقدام, ‏المتشرد (canter, hobo, rogue, straggler, truant, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wastrel), ‏المومس (prostitute, streetwalker), ‏خطا بتثاقل, ‏رحلة شاقة على الأقدام, ‏ضرب الأرض, ‏متشرد (bum, rogue, vagabond, vagrant), ‏تسول (beggary, begging, cadge, mendicity, panhandle, put out), ‏تسكع (gad about, hang about, hang around, idling, linger, loaf, loiter, lounge, meander, mess around, mooch, mosey, muck about, perambulate, perambulation, potter, putter, range, roam, slop, slouch, traipse), ‏تنزه (hike, knock around, mosey, parade, perambulate, picnic, promenade, ramble, stretch one's legs, stroll, troll, walk), ‏واصل سيره على القدمين, ‏وقع الأقدام (plod, tread), ‏نزه (perambulation), ‏صفيحة معدنية لوقاية نعل الحذاء. (various references)

Bulgarian 

шум от тежки стъпки (trample), панта (hinge, hobo, knuckle, vagabond), преброждам (measure, roam, rove, scour, wander), проститутка (doxy, drab, fancy girl, fancy woman, harlot, hooker, night bird, night walker, prostitute, punk, scarlet woman, strumpet, tart, tootsy, trollop, trot, trull, unfortunate, wench, whore), безделник (black sheep, bum, cornerman, dangler, dead beat, deadbeat, do nothing, fiddler, fribble, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, lay about, loafer, loiterer, loon, lounger, spalpeen, spiv, twiddler, vagabond, wastrel), бродя (range, rove, stray, vagabond, walk, wander), бродяга (prowler, roamer, runabout), дълга разходка, крача тежко, стъпвам тежко (stodge, stump along, trample, trudge), трамп, трудно пътуване пеш, скитам (bum, drift, hike, hobo, ramble, roam about, roll, rove, vagabond), скитник (bum, casual, derelict, drifter, erratic, floater, hobo, itinerant, knockabout, land-loper, land-louper, nomad, on the wallaby, roadster, roamer, rover, runabout, straggler, swagman, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), уличница (hussy, hustler, huzzy, punk, quean, streetwalker, trull), уморително пътуване пеш, бъхтя път (plod). (various references)

Chinese 

�'步旅行. (various references)

Czech

tulák (beachcomber, dosser, drifter, gadabout, hobo, itinerant, landloper, landraker, prowler, rambler, Ranger, rogue, rover, stroller, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wayfarer), trampovat (backpack, hike, ramble), toulka (ramble, wander), tìžký krok, vandrák (bum, hobo, vagabond), rajda, potulovat se (gad about, hover about, prowl, ramble, range, roam, rove, skulk, stroll, vagabond), kráèet tìžce, dupot (trample), dupat (stamp, stomp, thump, trample), dìvka (whore), coura (broad, draggle-tail, scruff, slattern, trollop), chodit (come, go, go about, walk), šlapat (behave, leg it, pad, tread). (various references)

Danish

trampskib (tramp ship, tramp steamer), tilbagespring, stød (push), skrumplen, hoppen, banken (the bank). (various references)

Dutch

tramp (tramp ship, tramp steamer), widde vaart schip (tramp ship, tramp steamer), vertikale wieltrilling. (various references)

Farsi 

فاحشه (Drab, Harlot, Madem, Mademe, Nag, Prostitute, Pug, Quean, Ribald, Stallion, Townswoman, Wench, Whore), پیاده روی کردن , ولگردی کردن (Hull, Loaf, Lout, Mooch, Vagabond), ولگردی (Profligacy, Ramble, Stray, Vagrancy), ولگرد (Blackgurad, Hooligan, Loafer, Prowler, Rambler, Stray, Swinger, Vagabond), صدای پا (Pad, Plod, Step), خانه بدوش (Nomad, Vagabond), اواره (Adrift, Gadabout, Immigrant, Straggle, Wanderer), اوارگی , اوره بودن , اسمان جل , باپالگدکردن , باصداراه رفتن . (various references)

Finnish

tallustaa (plod, trudge), poljenta (stamping), maankiertäjä (bum, vagabond, vagrant), kulkuri (vagabond, vagrant), kopina (pattering, stamp). (various references)

French

tramp (tramp ship, tramp steamer), clochard. (various references)

German

Trampeln (clump, kick, lumber, stamp, trample), Tramp (tramp ship, tramp steamer), Landstreicher (bum, hobo, vagabond, vagabonds, vagrant, vagrants, yegg). (various references)

Greek 

κραδασμός (bump, shock, vibration), κτύποσ βήματων, βηματίζω βαριά, μόρτης (bum, rascal, street urchin), περιπλανώμαι (gander, jaunt, knock about, meander, ramble, roam, rove, wander), περπατώ κουρασμένα, πεζοπορία (hike, pedestrianism, walk), πατώ (foot, step, step on, tread, tread on), χτύποσ βήματων, ελεύθερο φορτηγό πλοίο (tramp ship, tramp steamer), αγύρτης (charlatan, mountebank, quackish), αλήτησ (bum, hobo, hoodlum, lout, rapscallion, rascallion, scamp, vagabond, vagrant), αλήτης (apache), οδοιπορώ. (various references)

Hebrew 

יחפן (barefooted, hooligan, ragamuffin), יצא� ית (harlot, prostitute, street girl, streetwalker, strumpet, whore), לפסוע בכב�"ות (clump), קול צעי�"�", קבצן (beggar, mendicant, pauper, sponge), אורח פורח (hobo, vagabond, wanderer), �"רס (run over, stamp, tread), � ו�" (drifter, nomad, nomadic, vagabond, wanderer), � ע ו� �" (fugitive, maverick, migrant, nomad, rover, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

Hungarian

járkálás, csavargó (beat, bum, corner-man, gadabout, hobo, hoodlum, jockey, knockabout, landloper, landlouper, layabout, loiterer, lowlife, outcast, prowler, ranger, roamer, rogue, rover, runabout, runagate, to go for a tramp, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

Indonesian

orang petualang, bajingan (crook, knave, rascal, rogue, thief). (various references)

Italian

vagabondo (gadabout, hobo, Idler, loafer, rambler, rolling stone, rover, scouring, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), vagabondaggio (roaming, vagabond, vagabondage, vagrancy, wandering, yegg), scarpinare (trek), rumore di passi pesanti, rimbalzo (bounce, rebound, rebound effect, ricochet), pezzente (crook, ragamuffin, trash, villain), oscillazione in controfase, nave da carico non avente linee regolari (tramp ship, tramp steamer), martellamento (hammering), girovago (itinerant, rambling, rover, vagrant), carretta (cart), camminata (gait, prom, promenade, walk), camminare pesantemente, barbone (long beard, poodle). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

ルミノール試�" (free loader, lake, laser, laser disk, laser printer, laserknife, Laserwriter, LD, Le Monde, loafer, luminol test, lung, racer, rake, rumba, unemployed person), 流れ者 (stranger), 宿無し (homeless person, vagabond), 不定期 (indeterminate, irregular). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

ルンペン (free loader, loafer, unemployed person), ながれもの (stranger), ふていき (indeterminate, irregular), やどなし (homeless person, vagabond). (various references)

Korean 

부� �기� . (various references)

Manx

troagyraght (hike, hiking, march, marching, tramp walk, trudge), shooyl dy trome, shaghrane (delusion, itinerant, vagabond, vagrant), riblas (stroller, vagabond). (various references)

Pig Latin

amptray.(various references)

Portuguese

vagabundo (bum, cornerman, down-and-out, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, lazybones, maverick, planetary, prowler, rambling, ranger, rover, rowdy, runabout, stroller, strolling, vagabond, vagrant, waif, wanderer, wandering, wastrel, woodward), ruído de passos pesados, ressalto (bounce, bound, cam, dap, heatspot, jut, ledge, lobe, lug, overhang, prominence, prominency, recoil, resilience, resiliency, rising, salience, shoulder, tappet), pedinte (beggar, cadger, lazarus, mendicant, mumper, panhandler, pauper, peddlar), mendigo (beggar, cadger, mumper, panhandler, peddlar, vagrant), martelagem (batter, cockle(cast and float glass), hammer, hammering, marking, needle hammer, spotting, timber marking, tree marking, wave), longa caminhada a pé. (various references)

Romanian

tropãi (clamp, clump, pound, stamp one's foot, trot), trop, tac (crack, cue, slap, smack), parcurge o regiune pe jos, cãlca apãsat, cargobot fãrã curse regulate, cerşetor (almsman, beggar, cadger, Lazar, mendicant, pauper), cioflingar (scamp, straggler, vagabond), derbedeu (reprobate, rogue, scapegrace, scoundrel, truant, urchin, vagabond), desculţ (barefoot, bare-footed, shoeless), golan (cad, good for nothing, hooligan, ragamuffin, ragged, rascal, ruffian, urchin, vagabond, wretch), haidamac (gadabout), bocãni (clamp, hammer, knock, thump), hoinar (dilly dally, gadabout, rambler, rambling, rover, roving, saunterer, strolling, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer, wandering), zgomot de paşi (footfall, tread), plimbare pe jos (walk, walking), ropot (burst, ripple, round, salvo, storm, thunder, tramping), se plimba pe jos, vagabond (bum, gadabout, gypsy, hobo, landloper, mudlark, range, rogue, rover, runabout, scalawag, stray, vagabond, vagrant), vagabondã, haimana (gutter-snipe, larrikin, loafer, ragamuffin, Ranger, renegade, scapegrace, street arab, truant, vagabond). (various references)

Russian 

утомительное путешествие, тяжело ступать (clamp, poach, trample), топот, топать босяк, звук тяжелых шагов (clump), бродяга (bum, derelict, dosser, drifter, drummer, gadabout, gadder, hobo, landloper, landlouper, maverick, nomad, prowler, rambler, rogue, runabout, runagate, stroller, sundowner, tramper, vagabond, vagrant), проститутка (call-girl, harlot, hooker, light-o'-love, prossie, prossy, prostitute, scarlet, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, trollop, trull, white slave, whore). (various references)

Scottish

post (letter carrier, pillar, post, va. tramp with the feet). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tramper, topotati, topot, teško koračati (clump), vucibatina (loafer), utabati (stamp), ugaziti (step into), skitnica (bum, drifter, hobo, landloper, landlouper, larrikin, loafer, runagate, sundowner, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer), probisvet (humbug, landloper, landlouper, picaroon, shack, spiv, sundowner), proći pešice, gulanfer (bum), bludnica (harlot, tart), šetnja (outing, promenade, saunter, stroll, walk). (various references)

Spanish

puta (dike, dyke, hooker, hustler, tart, whore), vagabundo (down and out, drifter, erring, gipsy, gypsy, outcast, piker, Ranger, rover, runagate, vagabond, vagrant, wanderer). (various references)

Swedish

luffare (bum, hobo, swagger, swagman, vagabond, vagrant), landstrykare (landloper, landlouper, rogue, vagrant). (various references)

Turkish

yaya gitmek (foot it, hoof, hoof it, tramp it), sokak serserisi (apache, side walk superintendent, sidewalk superintendent), serserice dolaşmak (lallygag), serseri (adrift, beat, bum, bummer, dawdler, dosser, down and out, drifter, errant, flotsam, flotsam and jetsam, gadabout, good for nothing, hobo, hoodlum, hooligan, landloper, larrikin, layabout, lowlife, ne'er do well, ne'er-do-weel, never-do-well, no good, outcast, punk, rambler, rascal, reprobate, rogue, roguish, rounder, rover, runagate, stray, strayed, sundowner, swag man, vagabond, vagrant, varmint, wandering, yob), sürtmek (chafe, gad, gad about, gall, hang out, horse around, loiter, muck about, range, rub, wander idly), sürtük (bimbo, minx, slattern, trollop), gezinme (ramble, roam, saunter, strolling, walkabout, wandering), derbeder (down and out, frumpish, roguish, untidy, vagabond, vagrant), berduş (landloper, vegabond), ağır ayak sesi, ağır adımlarla yürümek (clump, stalk), çiğnemek (break, champ, chew, chump, contravene, crunch, infringe, masticate, outrage, override, run down, run over, squelch, stamp, swamp, trample, trample down, transgress, violate). (various references)

Turkmen 

ykmanda (vagabond). (various references)

Ukrainian

гупати (clatter, pound, wallop), бродяга (abraham-man, bush-whacker, drummer, gadabout, hobo, loafer, needy, nomad, prowler, rambler, runabout, runagate, stroller, tourist, vagabond, vagrant, waif), бродяжити (hike, shack, vagabondize), подорожувати пішки (hike), подорож пішки. (various references)

Vietnamese 

tiếng đi nặng nề cuộc đi bộ d� i người đi lang thang, người con gái đĩ thoã. (various references)

Welsh

crwydryn (vagabond, vagrant). (various references)

herlot, arlot. (various references)

trampen. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tramp": tramped, tramper, trampers, tramping, trampish, trample, trampled, trampler, tramplers, tramples, trampling, trampoline, trampoliner, trampoliners, trampolines, trampolining, trampolinings, trampolinist, trampolinists, tramps. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tramp" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Framp, gramp, kramp, nramp, tarmy, tpamp, traam, traip, trama, trame, trampe, trampo, trampy, tranq, transp, traup, tremmy, troam, tromf, Trompf, trumpa, tsampo, tzampa. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: mart, part, pram, prat, ramp, rapt, tamp, tarp, tram, trap.

-2 letters: amp, apt, arm, art, map, mar, mat, pam, par, pat, ram, rap, rat, tam, tap, tar.

-3 letters: am, ar, at, ma, pa, ta.

+1 letter: armpit, impart, tamper, tramps.

+2 letters: armpits, compart, crampit, imparts, mantrap, marplot, mispart, patamar, primate, rampant, rampart, restamp, stamper, tampers, taproom, tempera, templar, tempura, tramped, tramper, trample.

+3 letters: apterium, atropism, attemper, comparts, crampits, dumpcart, impacter, impactor, imparity, imparted, imparter, malapert, mantraps, marplots, mercapto, metaphor, misparts, parament, pastrami, pastromi, patamars, pattamar, permeant, permeate, plastrum, platform, postmark, preadmit, prestamp, primatal, primates, protamin, ramparts, restamps, stampers, sympatry, tampered, tamperer, tapeworm, taprooms, temperas, templars, temporal, tempuras, teraphim, trampers, tramping, trampish, trampled, trampler, tramples, upmarket, upstream.