Entry Word: tramp

Function: noun

Meaning: a homeless wanderer who may beg or steal for a living <the police encouraged the tramps who were sleeping in the park to spend the bitterly cold night in the homeless shelter>

Synonyms bum, hobo, sundowner [Australian], vagabond, vagrant

Related Words drifter, roamer, transient; beggar, derelict; dodger, malingerer, shirker, slacker; gamine, ragamuffin, urchin, waif