Tramp (disambiguation)
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A tramp
is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as an itinerant vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking.
Tramp may also refer to:
Tramp
A tramp is a long term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking all year round. In British English meanwhile a tramp simply refers to a homeless person, usually not a travelling one....
is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as an itinerant vagrant, traditionally walking or hiking.
Tramp may also refer to:
Entertainment
- The TrampThe TrampThe Tramp, also known as The Little Tramp was Charlie Chaplin's most memorable on-screen character, a recognized icon of world cinema most dominant during the silent film era....
, an iconic character played by Charlie Chaplin- The Tramp (film)The Tramp (film)The Tramp is Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Essanay Studios in 1915. Directed by Chaplin, it was the fifth and last film made at Essanay's Niles, California studio. The Tramp marked the beginning of The Tramp character most known today, even though Chaplin played the character in earlier films...
, a 1915 short film in which he appeared
- The Tramp (film)
- "The Tramp" (song)The Tramp (song)"The Tramp" is – together with "The Preacher and the Slave" – one of labor organizer Joe Hill's most well-known songs. The lyrics tell about an able-bodied but unemployed man who wanders around looking for work, but is not welcome anywhere – even in church, Heaven, and Hell...
, one of Joe Hill's best-known songs - "Tramp" (Stranglers song)Tramp (Stranglers song)"Tramp" is a song included as a track on the Stranglers sixth studio album La Folie. "Tramp" was originally thought to be the ideal followup single to the massive hit "Golden Brown". However Jean Jacques Burnel convinced fellow band members that the track "La Folie" was a much better choice. This...
, album track by British rock group The Stranglers - Tramp (song) a 1967 song recorded by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas
- Tramp (Lady and the Tramp), a character in Disney's movie Lady and the Tramp
- Trampin'Trampin'Trampin' is an album by Patti Smith, released April 27, 2004. It was the first album Smith released on the Columbia Records label. Rolling Stone magazine placed the record on its list of "The Top 50 Albums of 2004".- Disc one :...
, a 2004 album by Patti Smith - The TrammpsThe TrammpsThe Trammps were an American disco band, who were based in Philadelphia and were one of the first disco bands. The band's first major success was with their 1972 cover version of "Zing! Went the Strings of My Heart". The first disco track they released was "Love Epidemic" in 1973...
, an early disco band (fl.FloruitFloruit , abbreviated fl. , is a Latin verb meaning "flourished", denoting the period of time during which something was active...
1972-1983) - Tramp (nightclub)Tramp (nightclub)Tramp is a private, members-only nightclub located on Jermyn Street in central London, England. Founded in 1969 by Johnny Gold with business partner Oscar Lerman, and Bill Ofner Tramp is considered to be one of the most exclusive member's clubs in the world and is a regular haunt for...
, a London nightclub - Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!Tramp! Tramp! Tramp!"Tramp! Tramp! Tramp! " was one of the most popular songs of the American Civil War. George F. Root wrote both the words and music and published it in 1864 to give hope to the Union prisoners of war. The song is written from the prisoner's point of view...
, a U.S. Civil War song by George F. Root
Sport
- Tramp, a racehorse which finished twentieth of twenty-three completing the course in the 1847 Grand National Steeplechase1847 Grand NationalThe 1847 Grand National Steeplechase was the ninth official annual running of a Handicap Steeple-chase Horse race which took place at Aintree Racecourse near Liverpool on 3 March 1847 and attracted a then record field of twenty-six runners...
at AintreeAintreeAintree is a village and civil parish in the Metropolitan Borough of Sefton, Merseyside. It lies between Walton and Maghull on the A59 road, about north of Liverpool city centre, in North West England.... - trampolineTrampolineA trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes....
People named or nicknamed "Tramp"
- Mike TrampMike TrampMike Tramp is a Danish singer and songwriter who is best known for his work with the hard rock bands White Lion and Freak of Nature...
(1961- ), a songwriter/singer - "Tramp": David A. TrampierDavid A. TrampierDave A. Trampier is a former artist and writer who worked on some of the earliest editions of the Dungeons & Dragons role-playing game and was the creator of the Wormy comic strip that ran in Dragon magazine...
(1954- ), an artist and writer who sometimes used the pseudonym "Tramp"
Other uses
- Czech TrampingCzech TrampingCzech tramping or in Czech, simply, tramping, is a movement that combines a trajectory towards nature with imaginative play based on ideas of "Amerika." It manifests itself in distinctive clothing style and weekend and vacation trips, and even musical performance.Czech interest in "Amerika" dates...
, the name of youth and social-culture movement in Czechoslovakia from 1918 onwards - Tramp, a slang term for a prostitute in American English; a harlot.
- Tramp, more commonly a slang term for a loose woman in American English; a slutSlutSlut or slattern is a pejorative term applied to an individual who is considered to have loose sexual morals or who is sexually promiscuous...
. - Tramp metal, pieces of metal that occur as an unwelcome impurity in other material, such as in waste paper for recycling.
- Tramp steamerTramp steamerA ship engaged in the tramp trade is one which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call. As opposed to freight liners, tramp ships trade on the spot market with no fixed schedule or itinerary/ports-of-call...
, a seagoing vessel which undertakes voyages for hire, as opposed to one making regular runs on a specified route. - Tramping, a commonly used New Zealand term for a hike ("tramp"), usually with at least one overnight stay in the outdoors
- TRAMP: "Transparent Remote (file) Access, Multiple Protocol", a software package allowing remote file-editing in an EmacsEmacsEmacs is a class of text editors, usually characterized by their extensibility. GNU Emacs has over 1,000 commands. It also allows the user to combine these commands into macros to automate work.Development began in the mid-1970s and continues actively...
-style environment - Tramp, an older term used among members of labor unions to refer to a worker who frequently travels around the country to areas where work is booming. The term is more applicable to one who stays mostly in RV parks, and moves around a great deal. this is different from a "traveler", one who goes to an area of the country for a period of time and returns to his home town, or plans to stay in the new area., a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
See also
- A Tramp AbroadA Tramp AbroadA Tramp Abroad is a work of non-fiction travel literature by American author Mark Twain, published in 1880. The book details a journey by the author, with his friend Harris , through central and southern Europe...
, an 1880 non-fiction book by Mark Twain - TranP, an adherent of Transnational progressivismTransnational progressivismTransnational progressivism is a term coined by Hudson Institute Fellow John Fonte in 2001 to describe an ideology that endorses a concept of postnational global citizenship and promotes the authority of international institutions over the sovereignty of individual nation-states.-Overview:Fonte...
- Supertramp (disambiguation)Supertramp (disambiguation)Supertramp is a term coined by William Henry Davies in his autobiography The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. It can also refer to:*Supertramp, a British progressive rock band...