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tramp

Tramp means to walk or stomp heavily. Your midnight tramp to the kitchen for milk and cookies doesn't thrill your downstairs neighbors.

Tramp comes from the German trampen, for "stamp." If you walk heavily, people will say you tramp, but if you're going on a tramp, that means you're going for a long walk or hike. If someone calls you a tramp, they either mean you're a slut or a hobo — each meaning comes vagrant, or wanderer, and the low-life behaviors associated with vagrants.

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: tramp

1
 vn
travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
2
 nv
a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
3
 n
a disreputable vagrant
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: tramp
1

v travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition

“We went tramping about the state of Colorado”
Type of:
hike
walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise

v cross on foot

“We had to tramp the creeks”
Type of:
cover, cross, cut across, cut through, get across, get over, pass over, track, traverse
travel across or pass over

v walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud

Synonyms:
footslog, pad, plod, slog, trudge
Types:
slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch, squish
walk through mud or mire
Type of:
walk
use one's feet to advance; advance by steps

n a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

Synonyms:
hiker, tramper
Types:
backpacker, packer
a hiker who wears a backpack
Type of:
footer, pedestrian, walker
a person who travels by foot

n a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

Synonyms:
hike, hiking
Types:
trudge
a long difficult walk
Type of:
walk
the act of walking somewhere

n a heavy footfall

“the tramp of military boots”
Type of:
footfall, footstep, step
the sound of a step of someone walking
2

n a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

Synonyms:
tramp steamer
Type of:
steamer, steamship
a ship powered by one or more steam engines

v move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment

Synonyms:
cast, drift, ramble, range, roam, roll, rove, stray, swan, vagabond, wander
drift, err, stray
wander from a direct course or at random
wander
go via an indirect route or at no set pace
Types:
maunder
wander aimlessly
gad, gallivant, jazz around
wander aimlessly in search of pleasure
Type of:
go, locomote, move, travel
change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically
3

n a disreputable vagrant

“a homeless tramp”
Synonyms:
bum, hobo
Types:
dosser, street person
someone who sleeps in any convenient place
Type of:
drifter, floater, vagabond, vagrant
a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support

n a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

Synonyms:
swinger
Type of:
debauchee, libertine, rounder
a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
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