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trampage

trampage noun: the wandering homeless lifestyle of a tramp.

Noun

trampage (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) The wandering homeless lifestyle of a tramp.
    • The action he inaugurated culminated in the law for the suppression of trampage, that has accomplished such good in the Granite State, and that has been so generally copied in other states.1882, Henry Harrison Metcalf, John Norris McClintock, The Granite Monthly: A New Hampshire Magazine, page 382
  2. (informal) The act of tramping or trekking.
    • He could take his wife to Muchenje by horseless carriage rather than by remorseless trampage through the bush.2014, David Fletcher, Marmite, Bites and Noisy Nights (in Zambia) (page 80)

Origin of trampage

From tramp + -age.

Questions about trampage

What does trampage mean?
Trampage means the wandering homeless lifestyle of a tramp.
What part of speech is trampage?
Trampage is a noun.

Words near trampage in the dictionary

  1. tramp steamer
  2. tramp steamers
  3. tramp trade
  4. tramp-pick
  5. tramp-picks
  6. trampage
  7. trampdom
  8. tramped
  9. tramper
  10. trampers
  11. trampess

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