Definition, Betydelse & Synonymer | Engelska ordet TRAMP

Definition av TRAMP

1. luffare
2. vandring, lång promenad
3. gå ljudligt
4. gå långt
5. (slang, amerikansk engelska) slampa

Exempel på hur man kan använda TRAMP i en mening

• A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.
• Hoboes, tramps, and bums are generally regarded as related, but distinct: a hobo travels and is willing to work; a tramp travels, but avoids work if possible; a bum neither travels nor works.
• A satire of the film industry, it follows a famous Hollywood comedy director (Joel McCrea) who, longing to make a socially relevant drama, sets out to live as a tramp to gain life experience for his forthcoming film.
• An American tramp steamer docks in New York harbor sometime in the early years of the 20th century before prohibition.
• It was there that he created the cartoon character of a tramp who later became known around the world as "Weary Willie".
• As could be expected, the process of converting two venerable tramp steamers into men-of-war was by no means complete, but over the next few weeks the two erstwhile "tramps" were given their main and secondary batteries as well as sound gear; nevertheless, they appeared to be mere cargo ships.
• Arthur Bertram Chandler (28 March 1912 in Aldershot, Hampshire, England – 6 June 1984 in Sydney, Australia) was an Anglo-Australian merchant marine officer, sailing the world in everything from tramp steamers to troop ships, but who later turned his hand to a second career as a prolific author of pulp science fiction.
• Like several other invasive ants, such as the red imported fire ant (Solenopsis invicta), the big-headed ant (Pheidole megacephala), the little fire ant (Wasmannia auropunctata), and the Argentine ant (Linepithema humile), the yellow crazy ant is a "tramp ant", a species that easily becomes established and dominant in new habitat due to traits such as aggression toward other ant species, little aggression toward members of its own species, efficient recruitment, and large colony size.
• In The Touch (1996), a group of young people try to help a tramp who preaches fundamentalist Christianity and turns violently against them.
• Writers about London also use the term without explanation ("he was a sailor, seal-hunter, tramp, fish warden, oyster pirate, cannery worker, jailbird, boxer, and gold digger"), as if everyone knew the meaning of the term.
• Rana Balaj was tutoring Orwell and Orwell was writing at Southwold, and resumed his sporadic expeditions going undercover as a tramp in and around London.

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