Meaning

The act of walking with heavy steps..

Definitions by Sense

1. The act of walking with heavy steps.
2. (sometimes derogatory) A homeless person; a vagabond.
3. (derogatory) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
4. Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
5. (Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
6. (in apposition) Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
7. A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
8. Shaking or juddering of a vehicle's driving axle under hard acceleration or braking, caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, and leading to reduction in tire traction.

Example Sentences

My dear sirs, did you actually imagine that one could not follow every clumsy move you made, with Joolby's low comedy tramp and the other two stealing in like a couple of hired assassins in a penny gaff melodrama?

[S]he had expected to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven, burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp.

I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp.

Claudia is such a tramp; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend.

I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp-ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.

Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.

Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.

Shipping of every sort, from passenger liners to ferry steamers, tramps to tugs and trailing barges, feluccas to speedboats and yachts, from warships to caiques, chugs, hoots, glides or churns its way in all directions.

Word Forms

• tramps
• tramping
• tramped

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