Synonyms of tramps

tramps 1 of 2

noun

plural of tramp

1

as in hoboes

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 & Similar Words

• hoboes
• beggars
• bums
• vagabonds
• vagrants
• transients
• swagmen
• derelicts
• drifters
• swaggies
• sundowners
• bindle stiffs
• bummers
• mendicants
• dodgers
• panhandlers
• roamers
• urchins
• shirkers
• waifs
• ragamuffins
• stiffs
• slackers
• malingerers
• gamines

2

as in prostitutes

a boldly flirtatious or sexually promiscuous woman

elders in the roaring twenties who labeled flappers degenerates and tramps

Synonyms & Similar Words

• prostitutes
• trollops
• hussies
• floozies
• sirens
• chippies
• minxes
• women of easy virtue
• Jezebels
• hoochies
• wenches
• doxies
• fancy women
• vamps
• temptresses
• queans
• grisettes
• trulls

tramps

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verb

present tense third-person singular of tramp

1

as in shuffles

to move heavily or clumsily

tramped wearily up the stairs after a long day at work

Synonyms & Similar Words

• shuffles
• stomps
• stumbles
• barges
• sloughs
• stamps
• clumps
• lumps
• stumps
• shambles
• lurches
• flounders
• hauls
• trudges
• weaves
• pounds
• scuffs
• plods
• drags
• lumbers
• scuffles
• flogs
• slogs
• galumphs
• staggers
• flops
• tromps
• waddles
• sways
• totters
• reels
• dodders
• blunders
• wobbles
• careens
• teeters

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• slides
• waltzes
• glides
• whisks
• floats
• drifts
• hangs
• coasts
• hovers
• breezes
• wafts
• poises

2

as in stomps

to tread on heavily so as to crush or injure

didn't mean to tramp your toes as I was running past you

Synonyms & Similar Words

• stomps
• stamps
• champs
• kicks
• tramples
• boots
• mashes
• smashes
• steps (on)
• hoofs
• runs over
• squashes
• runs down
• tromps
• overrides
• pulps
• squelches

3

as in strolls

to travel by foot for exercise or pleasure

we would have happily tramped through the forest for the rest of the day if it hadn't started to rain

Synonyms & Similar Words

• strolls
• walks
• hikes
• saunters
• wanders
• ambles
• roams
• rambles
• roves
• perambulates
• treks
• marches
• traverses
• promenades
• tromps
• traipses
• peregrinates
• power walks

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of tramps

Noun

In a California town called Anzar in the late-19th century, Paulette is living with a local magnate’s eccentric son who’s fascinated by the tramps gathering outside his manor. — Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2026

The scene inspired future comedy gags showing drifters and tramps losing their pants to dogs chasing them. — Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 29 Jan. 2026

Told in a lingua franca of philosophy and academic jargon, Lucky’s speech has something to do with the collapse of reason and logic, and the futility of human progress, which is ultimately what tramps Estragon (Reeves) and Vladimir (Winter) are up against, too. — Ryan Lattanzio, IndieWire, 17 Dec. 2025

Help, of course, isn’t coming—not over the Indian Ocean, not in the nursing home, not on the tramps’ moonlit road. — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 2 Oct. 2025

In Commonweal a Berrigan brother wrote from jail of the hopeful solidarity among his Black cellmates; Catholic Worker newspapers, their cheap ink faded by an afternoon of sunlight, described finding Christ among tramps on the breadline and exhorted readers to join Him. — Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025