a heavy footfall; "the tramp of military boots" a disreputable vagrant; "a homeless tramp"; "he tried to help the really down-and-out bums" cross on foot; "We had to tramp the creeks" travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition; "We went tramping about the state of Colorado
A tramp is a person who has no home or job, and very little money. Tramps go from place to place, and get food or money by asking people or by doing casual work
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"
disapproval If someone refers to a woman as a tramp, they are insulting her, because they think that she is immoral in her sexual behaviour. to walk somewhere slowly and with heavy steps
An international water carrier that has no fixed route or published schedule; a shipper charters a tramp ship for a particular voyage or a given time period
If you tramp somewhere, you walk there slowly and with regular, heavy steps, for a long time. They put on their coats and tramped through the falling snow She spent all day yesterday tramping the streets, gathering evidence. = trudge
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Etymologie
[ 'tramp, intransitive sense ] (verb.) 14th century. Middle English; akin to Middle Low German trampen to stamp.