Tramp
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Tramp has a number of meanings:
- A tramp is an itinerant who travels from place to place, traditionally tramping, that is, walking. While they may do odd jobs from time to time, tramps aren't looking for regular work and support themselves by other means i.e. begging or scavenging. This is in contrast to hobos who travel from place to place (often by catching rides on freight trains) looking for work, or schnorrers, who travel from city to city begging. Both the terms tramp and hobo (and the distinction between them) were in common use between the 1880s and the 1940s, and were not limited to the Great Depression. Schnorrer is a Yiddish term. Like hobo and bum, tramp is considered somewhat rude in American English usage, having been subsumed in more polite contexts by words such as homeless person or transient. It remains relatively more common in British English, but has also been somewhat replaced with homeless person.
- In New Zealand tramping is the commonly used name for a hike of at least one overnight stay in the outdoors. The travel book by Mark Twain A Tramp Abroad uses the word in this sense. It is not about an indigent itinerant.
- Vacilando is a kind of tramp for whom the travel as such is more important than the destination.
- Tramp is also a slang term for a "loose" woman or prostitute in American English.
- In shipping terminology, a tramp steamer is a seagoing vessel which undertakes voyages for hire, as opposed to one making regular runs on a specified route.
- Tramp metal refers to pieces of metal that occur as an unwelcome impurity in other material, such as waste paper for recycling.
- Tramp was the pseudonym of Michael Halpin Lawing while recording, performing, and writing music. "Tramp" played primarily fiddle and mandolin and performed with numerous musical groups including the Kendalls, Walk the West, The Cactus Brothers and Bonepony.
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