TRAMP


Meaning of TRAMP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ træmp ]

( tramps, tramping, tramped)

1.

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.

N-COUNT

2.

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

VERB : V prep / adv , V n

3.

The tramp of people is the sound of their heavy, regular walking.

He heard the slow, heavy tramp of feet on the stairs.

N-UNCOUNT : usu N of n

4.

If someone refers to a woman as a tramp , they are insulting her, because they think that she is immoral in her sexual behaviour. ( mainly AM OFFENSIVE )

N-COUNT [ disapproval ]

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