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  • noun Plural form of tramp.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of tramp.

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    Hook hunters up with 'tramps,' not stamps 2008

  • Williams at Cambridge is remembered as a “saintly person” who took in tramps and worked with disadvantaged children and yet was untouched by the tumult of the time.

    The Velvet Reformation 2009

  • Williams at Cambridge is remembered as a “saintly person” who took in tramps and worked with disadvantaged children and yet was untouched by the tumult of the time.

    The Velvet Reformation 2009

  • The constant circulation of tramps is something quite artificial.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • In a special room set apart for them were what we brutally call tramps, but who doubtless are known in Spain for indigent brethren overtaken on their wayfaring without a lodging for the night.

    Familiar Spanish Travels 2004

  • The fungi have very aptly been termed the tramps of the vegetable kingdom, that is, they live on food prepared by somebody else.

    Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the Second Annual Meeting Ithaca, New York, December 14 and 15, 1911

  • Oh, I imagine the tramps were the regular kind that go about the country in summer, begging their way.

    The Curlytops on Star Island Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • Oh, I imagine the tramps were the regular kind that go about the country in summer, begging their way.

    The Curlytops on Star Island or Camping out with Grandpa Howard Roger Garis 1917

  • What a throng of crowding recollections rushed on me as I recalled the tramps through mud and snow or under the blazing sun past these places in the happy days long gone, with the gay and gallant spirits, the brave and jolly comrades whose familiar faces rose before me, and whose souls communed with mine till the brakeman wondered at my silence.

    Two boys in the Civil War and after, 1912

  • "I want you two men to help me lay a boy out," answered Dan Baxter, feeling that there was no use in mincing matters, for he knew that the tramps were a bad crowd.

    The Rover Boys out West Or, The Search for a Lost Mine Edward Stratemeyer 1896

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