noun
Meaning 1
The act of walking with heavy steps.
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noun
The act of walking with heavy steps.
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noun
A homeless person; a vagabond.
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Usage: derogatory, sometimes
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Synonyms: bum, hobo, vagabond, stiff, casual, clochard, derelict, dero, down-and-out, down-and-outer, drifter, epithite, floater, gadling, Jack out of doors, knight of the road, landleaper, landloper, landlouper, nomad, paker, palliard, pike, piker, ranger, rogue, rolling stone, rough sleeper, scatterling, skelder, skell, stroller, stumblebum, swagman, swaggie, toerag, tramp, truant, vagrant, wanderer, waif, yagger
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noun
A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
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Usage: derogatory
Synonyms: NB: All terms are usually pejorative unless stated otherwise., 304, alley cat, alleycat, amorette, amoret, amorosa, article, Athanasian wench, blowsabella, bop, chippy, cocotte, cockatrice, cockslut, cockwhore, crumpet, cum dumpster, cum guzzler, cumhole, cumslut, cumwhore, Cyprian, demimondaine, doxy, drab, eager beaver, Essex girl, flirt-gill, floogy, floosie, floosy, floozie, floozy, fornicator, fornicatour, fornicatress, fornicatrix, fuckstress, Fulham virgin, geebag, giglot, gillian, gill, good-time girl, grim, grisette, harlot, ho bag, ho-bag, hoe bag, hoe-bag, hoe, hoochie mama, hoochie, hood rat, ho, hussy, jade, jay, jillflirt, lady of light virtue, LBFM, light-o'-love, light-of-love, lightskirt, little brown fucking machine, loose woman, lorette, mab, manizer, minx, moll, mort wap-apace, nymphomaniac, painted Jezebel, puta, puzzel, quean, Quicumque vult, quiff, rig, scag, scrubber, skank, skettle, sket, skit, slag, slapper, slattern, sloven, slutbag, slut, stale, streel, strumpet, sweet cheeks, tartlet, tart, thotty, thot, town bicycle, town bike, tramp, treddle, trollop, trull, village bicycle, village bike, wagon, waistcoateer, wanton, wench, whore
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noun
Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
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noun
A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
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Usage: Australia, New-Zealand
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Synonyms: bushwalk, hike, ramble, trek
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noun
Of objects, stray, intrusive and unwanted.
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noun
A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.
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noun
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.
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noun
Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.
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Usage: abbreviation, alt-of, clipping
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verb
To walk with heavy footsteps.
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verb
To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
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verb
To hitchhike.
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verb
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To travel or wander through.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
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Usage: Scotland, transitive
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verb
To scram; begone.
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Usage: colloquial, intransitive
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verb
To shake or judder under hard acceleration or braking, referring to the movement of a vehicle's driving axle caused by the suspension not fully restraining it, leading to reduction in tire traction.
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Usage: intransitive
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noun
a long walk usually for exercise or pleasure
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hike, hiking
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Broader terms: walk
Narrower terms: trudge
noun
a commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: tramp steamer
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Broader terms: steamer, steamship
noun
a heavy footfall
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Broader terms: footfall, footstep, step
noun
a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: hiker, tramper
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Broader terms: pedestrian, walker, footer
Narrower terms: backpacker, packer
noun
a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: swinger
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Broader terms: libertine, debauchee, rounder
noun
a disreputable vagrant
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: hobo, bum
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: vagrant, drifter, floater, vagabond
Narrower terms: dosser, street person
verb
move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: roll, wander, swan, stray, roam, cast, ramble, rove, range, drift, vagabond
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: travel, go, move, locomote
Narrower terms: maunder, gallivant, gad, jazz around
verb
cross on foot
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
verb
travel on foot, especially on a walking expedition
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: hike
verb
walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: slog, footslog, plod, trudge, pad
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: walk
Narrower terms: squelch, squish, splash, splosh, slosh, slop
History
From Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to trample”). Probably related to trap.
Clipping of trampoline (ultimately related to the verb via German trampeln).
Across languages
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