noun
- A disreputable vagrant.
- usage: "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums"
- A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex.
- synonyms: swinger
- A foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure.
- A heavy footfall.
- usage: "the tramp of military boots"
- A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule.
- synonyms: tramp steamer
- A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure.
- usage: "she enjoys a hike in her spare time"
verb
- Travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition.
- usage: "We went tramping about the state of Colorado"
- Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud.
- usage: "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone"
- Cross on foot.
- usage: "We had to tramp the creeks"
- Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment.
- usage: "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"
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