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tramp

(trămp)

v. tramped, tramp·ing, tramps

v.intr.

1. To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.

a. To travel on foot; hike.

b. To wander about aimlessly.

v.tr.

1. To traverse on foot: tramp the fields.

2. To tread down; trample: tramp down snow.

a. A heavy footfall.

b. The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.

2. A walking trip; a hike.

3. One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.

a. A prostitute.

b. A person regarded as promiscuous.

5. Nautical A tramp steamer.

6. A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.

[Middle English trampen, to walk heavily, from Middle Low German.]

tramp′er n.

tramp′ish adj.

tramp′y adj.

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tramp

(træmp)

1. (intr) to walk long and far; hike

2. to walk heavily or firmly across or through (a place); march or trudge

3. (intr) to wander about as a vagabond or tramp

4. (tr) to make (a journey) or traverse (a place) on foot, esp laboriously or wearily: to tramp the streets in search of work.

5. (tr) to tread or trample

6. (intr) NZ to walk for sport or recreation, esp in the bush

7. a person who travels about on foot, usually with no permanent home, living by begging or doing casual work

8. a long hard walk; hike

9. a heavy or rhythmic step or tread

10. the sound of heavy treading

11. (Nautical Terms) Also called: tramp steamer a merchant ship that does not run between ports on a regular schedule but carries cargo wherever the shippers desire

12. slang chiefly US and Canadian a prostitute or promiscuous girl or woman

13. (Clothing & Fashion) an iron plate on the sole of a boot

[C14: probably from Middle Low German trampen; compare Gothic ana-trimpan to press heavily upon, German trampen to hitchhike]

ˈtramping n

ˈtrampish adj

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tramp

(træmp)

v.i.

1. to tread or walk with a firm, heavy step.

2. to tread heavily or trample (usu. fol. by on or upon).

3. to walk steadily; march; trudge.

4. to go on a walking excursion; hike.

5. to go about as a vagabond or tramp.

6. to make a voyage on a tramp steamer.

v.t.

7. to walk heavily or steadily through or over.

8. to traverse on foot: to tramp the streets.

9. to tread or trample underfoot: to tramp grapes.

10. to travel over as a tramp.

11. the act of tramping.

12. a firm, heavy, resounding tread.

13. the sound made by such a tread.

14. a long, steady walk; trudge; hike.

15. a person who travels about on foot, esp. a vagabond living on occasional jobs or gifts of money or food.

16. a sexually promiscuous woman.

17. a freight vessel that does not run regularly between fixed ports, but takes a cargo wherever shippers desire.

18. a piece of iron affixed to the sole of a shoe.

[1350–1400; Middle English: to stamp, probably < Middle Low German trampen to tramp, tread; akin to Gothic anatrimpan to crowd]

tramp′ish, adj.

tramp

Past participle: tramped
Gerund: tramping

Imperative
tramp
tramp

Present
I tramp
you tramp
he/she/it tramps
we tramp
you tramp
they tramp

Preterite
I tramped
you tramped
he/she/it tramped
we tramped
you tramped
they tramped

Present Continuous
I am tramping
you are tramping
he/she/it is tramping
we are tramping
you are tramping
they are tramping

Present Perfect
I have tramped
you have tramped
he/she/it has tramped
we have tramped
you have tramped
they have tramped

Past Continuous
I was tramping
you were tramping
he/she/it was tramping
we were tramping
you were tramping
they were tramping

Past Perfect
I had tramped
you had tramped
he/she/it had tramped
we had tramped
you had tramped
they had tramped

Future
I will tramp
you will tramp
he/she/it will tramp
we will tramp
you will tramp
they will tramp

Future Perfect
I will have tramped
you will have tramped
he/she/it will have tramped
we will have tramped
you will have tramped
they will have tramped

Future Continuous
I will be tramping
you will be tramping
he/she/it will be tramping
we will be tramping
you will be tramping
they will be tramping

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been tramping
you have been tramping
he/she/it has been tramping
we have been tramping
you have been tramping
they have been tramping

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been tramping
you will have been tramping
he/she/it will have been tramping
we will have been tramping
you will have been tramping
they will have been tramping

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been tramping
you had been tramping
he/she/it had been tramping
we had been tramping
you had been tramping
they had been tramping

Conditional
I would tramp
you would tramp
he/she/it would tramp
we would tramp
you would tramp
they would tramp

Past Conditional
I would have tramped
you would have tramped
he/she/it would have tramped
we would have tramped
you would have tramped
they would have tramped

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Noun	1.	tramp - a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" hobo, bum dosser, street person - someone who sleeps in any convenient place drifter, vagrant, vagabond, floater - a wanderer who has no established residence or visible means of support
	2.	tramp - a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex swinger debauchee, libertine, rounder - a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
	3.	tramp - a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure) hiker, tramper backpacker, packer - a hiker who wears a backpack pedestrian, footer, walker - a person who travels by foot
	4.	tramp - a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots" footfall, footstep, step - the sound of a step of someone walking; "he heard footsteps on the porch"
	5.	tramp - a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule tramp steamer steamship, steamer - a ship powered by one or more steam engines
	6.	tramp - a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure; "she enjoys a hike in her spare time" hike, hiking walk - the act of walking somewhere; "he took a walk after lunch" trudge - a long difficult walk
Verb	1.	tramp - travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado" athletics, sport - an active diversion requiring physical exertion and competition hike - walk a long way, as for pleasure or physical exercise; "We were hiking in Colorado"; "hike the Rockies"
	2.	tramp - walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud; "Mules plodded in a circle around a grindstone" footslog, plod, trudge, slog, pad walk - use one's feet to advance; advance by steps; "Walk, don't run!"; "We walked instead of driving"; "She walks with a slight limp"; "The patient cannot walk yet"; "Walk over to the cabinet" squish, slop, slosh, splash, splosh, squelch - walk through mud or mire; "We had to splosh across the wet meadow"
	3.	tramp - cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks" cross, cut across, cut through, get over, traverse, pass over, get across, track, cover - travel across or pass over; "The caravan covered almost 100 miles each day"
	4.	tramp - 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" roam, rove, stray, vagabond, wander, swan, ramble, range, drift, cast, roll go, locomote, move, travel - change location; move, travel, or proceed, also metaphorically; "How fast does your new car go?"; "We travelled from Rome to Naples by bus"; "The policemen went from door to door looking for the suspect"; "The soldiers moved towards the city in an attempt to take it before night fell"; "news travelled fast" maunder - wander aimlessly gad, gallivant, jazz around - wander aimlessly in search of pleasure drift, err, stray - wander from a direct course or at random; "The child strayed from the path and her parents lost sight of her"; "don't drift from the set course" wander - go via an indirect route or at no set pace; "After dinner, we wandered into town"

tramp

verb

1. trudge, march, stamp, stump, toil, plod, traipse (informal), walk heavily They put on their coats and tramped through the fallen snow.

2. hike, walk, trek, roam, march, range, ramble, slog, rove, go walkabout (Austral.), yomp, footslog He spent a month tramping in the hills around Balmoral.

noun

1. vagrant, bum (informal), derelict, drifter, down-and-out, hobo (chiefly U.S.), vagabond, bag lady (chiefly U.S.), dosser (Brit. slang) an old tramp who slept rough in our neighbourhood

2. tread, stamp, footstep, footfall the slow, heavy tramp of feet on the staircase

3. hike, march, trek, ramble, slog He had just come from a day-long tramp on some wild moor.

4. (Slang, chiefly U.S. & Canad.) slut, tart, slag (Brit. slang), slapper (Brit. slang), scrubber (Brit. & Austral. slang), trollop, sloven, slattern Look at her. She's a tramp, getting undressed with the shades open.

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tramp

verb

1. To walk with loud, heavy steps:

stamp, stomp, trample.

Informal: tromp.

2. To travel about or journey on foot:

backpack, hike, march, peregrinate, traipse, trek.

3. To step on heavily and repeatedly so as to crush, injure, or destroy:

stamp, stomp, trample, tread, tromp.

noun

A vulgar promiscuous woman who flouts propriety:

baggage, hussy, jade, slattern, slut, tart, wanton, wench, whore.

Slang: floozy.

Translations

جَوْلَةٌ سَيْرا على الأقْدامرِحْلَةٌ سَيْرًا عَلَى الَأقْدامزانِيَه تَنام مع عِدَّة رجالصُعْلوك مُتَشَرِّدقارِب رُكّاب غَيْر مُحَدَّد الإتِّجاه

tuláktúravandrcouraděvka

vagabondvandrevandreturfragtdampergåtur

Landstreicher Wanderung Landstreicherin Schlampe trampeln

αλήτης ποδαρόδρομος

bichicome caminata croto linyera vagabundo

kävelyretkikulkuri

clochard randonnée vagabond marcher à pas lourds

prosjakskitnja

alkalmi teherhajóbebarangolfárasztó gyaloglásgyalogláslábdübörgés

flakkariflutningaskipgangalöng gangaòramm

barbone camminata passo schiacciare vagabondaggio

徒歩旅行浮浪者

거지행군

kekšėklajonėpaleistuvėplumpintisunkiai eiti

ielasmeitaklaidonisklaiņojumsklaiņotklenderis

vagebond voettocht

fottur løsaktig kvinne løsgjenger tigger trampbåt

wędrówka włóczęga

caminhada longa mendigo

бродяга долгая прогулка бомж

dupaniefľandrarobiť pešie túry

potepuh

fotvandringluffare

การเดินทางไกลคนจรจัด

ağır adımlarla yürümekavareayak sesievsiz barksız insankaldırım yosması

chuyến đi bộ dàikẻ lang thang

远足重的脚步声妓女徒步旅行流浪汉

tramp

[træmp]

A. N

1. (= sound of feet) → ruido m de pasos

2. (= long walk) → caminata f
to go for a tramp in the hills → ir de paseo por la montaña
it's a long tramp → es mucho camino

3. (= homeless person) → vagabundo/a m/f

4. (esp US) (= loose woman) she's a tramp → es una zorra, es una golfa

5. (Naut) (also tramp steamer) → vapor m volandero

B. VT

1. (= stamp on) → pisar con fuerza

2. (= walk across) → recorrer a pie, hacer una excursión por
to tramp the streets → andar por las calles, callejear

C. VI to tramp (along) → caminar (con pasos pesados)
the soldiers tramped past → los soldados pasaron marchando
to tramp up and down → andar de acá para allá
he tramped up to the door → se acercó con pasos pesados a la puerta

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

tramp

[ˈtræmp]

(= homeless person) → vagabond(e) m/f

(= immoral woman) → grue f

vi → marcher d'un pas lourd

(= walk through) [+ town, streets] → parcourir à pied

tramp

(= walk heavily, trudge) → stapfen, mit schweren Schritten gehen, stampfen; the soldiers tramped along for hours → die Soldaten marschierten stundenlang (mit schweren Schritten); I’ve been tramping (a)round town all day → ich bin den ganzen Tag in der Stadt herumgestiefelt (inf); to tramp up and down the platform → auf dem Bahnsteig auf und ab marschieren

(= hike) → marschieren, wandern; (vagabond) → umherziehen; he tramped all over Europe → er wanderte in ganz Europa umher

(= spread by walking) → herumtreten; don’t tramp that mud into the carpet → tritt den Dreck nicht in den Teppich

(= walk) streets → latschen durch (inf)

(= vagabond) → Landstreicher(in) m(f), → Tramp m; (in town) → Stadtstreicher(in) m(f)

(= sound) → Stapfen nt, → schwere Schritte pl

(= walk) → Wanderung f; it’s a long tramp → es ist ein weiter Weg

(Naut) → Trampdampfer m

(inf: = loose woman) → Flittchen nt (pej)

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

tramp

[træmp]

1. n

a. (sound of feet) → rumore m pesante (di passi)

b. (long walk) → camminata
to go for a tramp in the hills → andare a fare una camminata sui colli

c. (person) → vagabondo/a
she's a tramp (fam, pej) → è una sgualdrina

2. vt (walk through, town, streets) → percorrere a piedi
to tramp the streets looking for sth → battere le strade in cerca di qc

3. vi → camminare con passo pesante
the soldiers tramped past → i soldati sono passati marciando pesantemente
he tramped up to the door → si è avvicinato con passi pesanti alla porta

tramp

(trӕmp) verb

1. to walk with heavy footsteps. He tramped up the stairs.

2. to walk usually for a long distance. She loves tramping over the hills.

noun

1. a person with no fixed home or job, who travels around on foot and usually lives by begging. He gave his old coat to a tramp.

2. a long walk.

3. the sound of heavy footsteps.

4. (also tramp steamer) a small cargo-boat with no fixed route.

5. (American) a prostitute or a woman who sleeps with a lot of men.

tramp

→ رِحْلَةٌ سَيْرًا عَلَى الَأقْدام, مُتَسَوِّل tulák, vandr gåtur, vagabond Landstreicher, Wanderung αλήτης, ποδαρόδρομος caminata, vagabundo kävelyretki, kulkuri clochard, randonnée prosjak, skitnja barbone, camminata 徒歩旅行, 浮浪者 거지, 행군 vagebond, voettocht fottur, tigger wędrówka, włóczęga caminhada longa, mendigo бродяга, долгая прогулка fotvandring, luffare การเดินทางไกล, คนจรจัด serseri, taban tepmek chuyến đi bộ dài, kẻ lang thang 流浪汉, 远足

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AN Ambitious Writer, distinguished for the condition of his linen, was travelling the high road to fame, when he met a Tramp.

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and O., blond Northmen from a Swedish barque, Japanese from a man-of-war, English sailors, Spaniards, pleasant-looking fellows from a French cruiser, negroes off an American tramp. By day it is merely sordid, but at night, lit only by the lamps in the little huts, the street has a sinister beauty.

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It was not easy, that backward tramp through the jungle, especially as night had fallen.

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By the hideous prison-wall, To tell the men who tramp the yard

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"'Nay, fair sir, a tramp, a man of devious ways and strange lodgements and multifarious--'

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A sprightly tramp promised greater difficulty, and nothing but some ferocious pantomime and a shilling persuaded him to forego a choice fantasia of cockney humour.

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I guessed I wouldn't stay in one place, but just tramp right across the country, mostly night times, and hunt and fish to keep alive, and so get so far away that the old man nor the widow couldn't ever find me any more.

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Is there another packet afloat this day in this weather c'u'd ha' met a tramp an', over an' above givin' her her reckonin', - over an' above that, I say, - c'u'd ha' discoorsed wid her quite intelligent on the management av steers an' such at sea'?

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and the bands could hardly hold in for the final note; then they turned their whole strength loose on "Tramp, tramp, tramp, the boys are marching," and everybody's excitement rose to blood-heat.

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Antinous scolded him and said, "You swaggering bully, you ought never to have been born at all if you are afraid of such an old broken down creature as this tramp is.

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Roque went back, while Don Quixote remained on horseback, just as he was, waiting for day, and it was not long before the countenance of the fair Aurora began to show itself at the balconies of the east, gladdening the grass and flowers, if not the ear, though to gladden that too there came at the same moment a sound of clarions and drums, and a din of bells, and a tramp, tramp, and cries of "Clear the way there!" of some runners, that seemed to issue from the city.

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With a steady tramp, tramp, they advanced, every step taking them nearer to the beautiful Emerald City.