tramp stamp

noun

informal + sometimes disparaging : a tattoo located on a woman's lower back

Many a college kid came home from spring break, football weekends and out-of-state summer internships with university logos, tramp stamps (lower-back tattoos) and sorority/fraternity letters.

—Ginny Graham

She now finds herself embarrassed by the original tattoo, in part because … lower-back tattoos have come to take on a derogatory name: the tramp stamp.

—Hayley Krischer

Examples of tramp stamp in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Was Ted and Tracy’s meet-cute as legend-wait for it-dary as his past romantic history with slutty pumpkins and tramp stamp removals and purple giraffes? — Sara Netzley, Entertainment Weekly, 19 Sep. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

2004, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for tramp stamp

• decamp
• encamp
• headlamp
• preamp
• revamp
• timestamp
• amp
• champ
• clamp
• cramp
• damp
• gamp