Meaning

noun a disreputable vagrant

noun a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

noun a foot traveler; someone who goes on an extended walk (for pleasure)

originFrom Middle English trampen (“to walk heavily”), from Middle Low German trampen (“to stamp”) (trampeln (“to walk with heavy steps”), see trample) or from Middle Dutch trampen (“to stamp”), from Proto-West Germanic *trampan (“to step”). Doublet of tremp. Cognate with Dutch trampen (“to stamp, kick, step”), dialectal German trampen (“to step, walk, tread”), whence commoner German trampeln (“to…

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