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Tramp (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ2448569 ↗
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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:

Entertainment

Film and TV

The Tramp, an iconic character played by Charlie Chaplin

The Tramp (film), a 1915 short film in which he appeared

Tramp (Lady and the Tramp), a character in Disney's movie Lady and the Tramp

Tramps (1983 film), an Austrian film

Tramps (2016 film), an American film

Tramp (EastEnders), a fictional dog in EastEnders

The Tramps, one of the English-language names for Brazilian comedy group Os Trapalhões

Music

Tramp (band), a British blues band

Tramp (Swedish band)

Tramp (album) a 2012 album by Sharon Van Etten

"The Tramp" (song), a 1913 song by Joe Hill

"Tramp" (The Stranglers song), a 1981 song by British rock group The Stranglers

"Tramp" (Lowell Fulson song), also recorded by Otis Redding and Carla Thomas

"The Tramps", an art song by Arthur Bliss (1891-1975)

People

Mike Tramp (born 1961), songwriter/singer

David A. Trampier (born 1954), artist and writer who sometimes used the pseudonym "Tramp"

Other uses

Tramp (nightclub), a private, members-only nightclub in London

Czech tramping, a youth and social-culture movement in Czechoslovakia from 1918 onwards

Quasar Tramp, a Czech hang glider design

USS Tramp (SP-646), a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919

Tramp, a racehorse in the 1847 Grand National at Aintree

Tramp boat, a vessel engaged in the Tramp trade which undertakes voyages for hire

A slang term for a slut in both American and British English

A commonly used New Zealand term for a hike; see Tramping in New Zealand

TRAMP, a network-transparent file access and remote shell package for GNU Emacs

See also

"Tramp! Tramp!

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The public source identifies “Tramp (disambiguation)” as wikimedia disambiguation page. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tramp, disambiguation and Wikimedia.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1915, 1983, 2016, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tramp, disambiguation and Wikimedia providing the first useful test.
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