Tramp

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Tramp may refer to:

• Tramp, a fashionable London nightclub.
• Tramp, an itinerant who travels from place to place, traditionally "tramping", that is, walking.
• In British English, a vagrant.

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.

[edit] Other uses

• Tramp, a slang term for a "loose" woman or prostitute in American English; a harlot.
• Tramp steamer, a seagoing vessel which undertakes voyages for hire, as opposed to one making regular runs on a specified route
• Tramp metal, pieces of metal that occur as an unwelcome impurity in other material, such as waste paper for recycling
• The Tramp, the iconic character played by Charlie Chaplin during the silent film era, as well as a 1915 short film in which he appeared.
• A Tramp Abroad, an 1880 non-fiction book by Mark Twain about a walking tour of Europe.
• Tramping, a commonly used New Zealand term for a hike of at least one overnight stay in the outdoors.
• Czech Tramping, the name of youth and social-culture movement in Czechoslovakia between years 1918 – 1938
• "Tramp," a character in Disney's movie Lady and the Tramp.

[edit] See also

• Vacilando, a kind of tramp for whom the travel as such is more important than the destination