tramp
1. a disreputable vagrant (Freq. 1)
- a homeless tramp
- he tried to help the really down-and-out bums
• Syn:
hobo, bum
• Hypernyms:
vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
• Hyponyms:
dosser, street person
2. a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
- she enjoys a hike in her spare time
• Syn:
hike, hiking
• Derivationally related forms:
hike (for: hike)
• Hypernyms:
walk
• Hyponyms:
trudge
3. a foot traveler;
someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
• Syn:
hiker, tramper
• Derivationally related forms:
tramp (for: tramper), hike (for: hiker)
• Hypernyms:
pedestrian, walker, footer
• Hyponyms:
backpacker, packer
4. a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
• Syn:
swinger
• Derivationally related forms:
swing (for: swinger)
• Hypernyms:
libertine, debauchee, rounder
5. a heavy footfall
- the tramp of military boots
• Hypernyms:
footfall, footstep, step
6. a commercial steamer for hire;
one having no regular schedule
• Syn:
tramp steamer
• Hypernyms:
steamer, steamship
1. travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition (Freq. 7)
- We went tramping about the state of Colorado
• Derivationally related forms:
tramper
• Topics:
sport, athletics
• Hypernyms:
hike
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
- The children tramp to the playground
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
• Derivationally related forms:
tramper, pad (for: pad), trudge (for: trudge), trudger (for: trudge), plodder (for: plod), plodding (for: plod), footslogger (for: footslog)
• Hypernyms:
walk
• Hyponyms:
squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s PP
3. cross on foot
- We had to tramp the creeks
• Hypernyms:
traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over,
get over, get across, cut through, cut across
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s something
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
• Derivationally related forms:
vagabond (for: vagabond), vagabondage (for: vagabond), drifter (for: drift), drifting (for: drift), roving (for: rove), ramble (for: ramble), rambler (for: ramble), roamer (for: roam), stray (for: stray), strayer (for: stray), wanderer (for: wander), wandering (for: wander)
• Hypernyms:
travel, go, move, locomote
• Hyponyms:
maunder, gallivant, gad, jazz around
• Verb Group:
stray, err, drift, wander
• Verb Frames:
- Somebody ----s
- Something is ----ing PP
- Somebody ----s something
- Somebody ----s PP
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