tramp 1 of 3

noun

ˈtramp How to pronounce tramp (audio)
Definition of trampnext
1
as in hobo
a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living the police encouraged the tramps who were sleeping in the park to spend the bitterly cold night in the homeless shelter

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as in prostitute
disparaging a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman elders in the roaring twenties who labeled flappers degenerates and tramps

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tramp

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verb

ˈtramp How to pronounce tramp (audio)
1
as in to shuffle
to move heavily or clumsily tramped wearily up the stairs after a long day at work

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2
as in to stomp
to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure didn't mean to tramp your toes as I was running past you

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3
as in to stroll
to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure we would have happily tramped through the forest for the rest of the day if it hadn't started to rain

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tramp

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adjective

as in vagabond

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Recent Examples of tramp
Noun
There’s a tramp, a ditz, a bad boss, a hippie, a by-the-book good girl. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026 Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025
Verb
Virginia Woolf tramped along the Cornish coast; Oliver Sacks was known to swim; Haruki Murakami is an accomplished runner. — Bonnie Tsui, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2026 Kate Moss has been photographed tramping around the same shire in muddy boots since the early 2000s. — Anna Cooban, CNN Money, 24 Dec. 2025
Adjective
Some Esperantists have embraced the tramp lifestyle full-time. — Katie Thornton, Harpers Magazine, 26 May 2026 When the schooner was just off the coast of El Salvador, a tramp steamer spotted them and finally supplied fresh water. — Michael Waters, New Yorker, 3 Jan. 2026 See All Example Sentences for tramp
Recent Examples of Synonyms for tramp
  1. hobo
  2. prostitute
  3. shuffle
  4. stomp
  5. stroll
  6. vagabond
  7. beggar
  8. hussy
Noun
  • Carl Sandburg’s 1927 American Songbag featured a whole section of hobo songs presenting the bum as a beau ideal.
    — Caroline Fraser, The New York Review of Books, 3 Oct. 2026
  • From feeding hobos on the back porch in the night in the Great Depression to marching against wars for oil in the Eighties and Nineties.
    — Brian Hiatt, Rolling Stone, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of hobo
Noun
  • And in Steinbeck’s original telling, Cathy — the most beloved patricidal, baby-abandoning prostitute in literature — is simply born that way.
    — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2026
  • Going hunting for a prostitute in a trailer park wasn't the smartest thing San Francisco 49ers owner Jed York ever did and the NFL on Friday fined and suspended him for it.
    — Armando Salguero OutKick, FOXNews.com, 2 Oct. 2026
Definition of prostitute
Verb
  • Kering is starting to clean house, having already shuffled creative directors at Gucci, Balenciaga and Bottega Veneta.
    — Merle Ginsberg, HollywoodReporter, 12 Oct. 2026
  • Green tea was served by gang members shuffling around in slippers.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 12 Oct. 2026
Definition of shuffle
Verb
  • The answer isn’t between stomping the gas pedal or leaving the car parked.
    — Bob Ackerman, Forbes.com, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Handclaps, stomping percussion and a communal chorus create the kind of infectious energy that naturally gets people moving.
    — qygwork, Billboard, 28 Sep. 2026
Definition of stomp
Verb
  • This is cinéma du doomscrolling at its funniest and its doomiest, generating the sort of laughs usually experienced by those strolling toward the gallows.
    — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Fresh off a meeting, Zach Harrison strolled through the Falcons’ locker room and felt his phone buzz.
    — Daniel Flick, AJC.com, 3 Oct. 2026
Definition of stroll
Adjective
  • To accompany a story on the 30th anniversary of Nabokov’s Lolita, Hockney was asked to visually capture the vagabond mood of the novel.
    — Mark Rozzo, Vanity Fair, 12 June 2026
  • Injuries help to explain the vagabond nature of Burdi's career.
    — Jon Paul Hoornstra, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Nov. 2025
Definition of vagabond
Noun
  • Dhaka’s rundown streets peppered with the homeless, vendors and child beggars.
    — Miriam Balanescu, IndieWire, 6 Sep. 2026
  • Robert Pattinson’s big outburst in Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey,’ has gone viral—here’s the ‘beggars’ meme, explained.
    — Dani Di Placido, Forbes.com, 26 July 2026
Definition of beggar
Noun
  • Billy the Kid, Doc Holliday and Pat Garrett hang out with a hussy.
    — Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 5 Mar. 2021
  • Either way, the woman comes out the other end a victim and a champion, but as a tramp and a hussy too.
    — Benjy Hansen-Bundy, Glamour, 30 May 2018
Definition of hussy

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“Tramp.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/tramp. Accessed 14 Oct. 2026.

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