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tramp steamers

tramp steamers is the plural of tramp steamer.

Meaning of tramp steamer

Noun

tramp steamer (plural tramp steamers)

  1. A commercial steamship that has no regular schedule or published ports of call.
    • They found out I was bright, so they figured I'd make a good labor organizer when I got out of school. When I left at the end of the summer, they carefully instructed me how to shag a tramp steamer in 'Frisco going south, lending me an old union card so I could work my passage as a deck hand.1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16
    Synonyms:
    ocean tramp

Questions about tramp steamers

What is tramp steamers the plural of?
Tramp steamers is the plural of tramp steamer.

Words near tramp steamers in the dictionary

  1. tramp iron
  2. tramp juice
  3. tramp stamp
  4. tramp stamps
  5. tramp steamer
  6. tramp steamers
  7. tramp trade
  8. tramp-pick
  9. tramp-picks
  10. trampage
  11. trampdom

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