Tramp vs Bang - What's the difference?
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(pejorative) A homeless person, a vagabond.
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(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.
Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.
* 1888 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), :
* 1919 , Charles Fort, :
* 1924 , George Sutherland, :
* 1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
(Australia, New Zealand) A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.
* 1968 , John W. Allen, It Happened in Southern Illinois ,
* 2005 , Paul Smitz, Australia & New Zealand on a Shoestring , Lonely Planet,
* 2006 , Marc Llewellyn, Lee Mylne, Frommer?s Australia from $60 a Day ,
, especially a very small one.
To walk with heavy footsteps.
To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).
To hitchhike
To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
To travel or wander through.
(Scotland) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
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A sudden percussive noise.
A strike upon an object causing such a noise.
An explosion.
(US, especially plural) A fringe of hair cut across the forehead.
* W. D. Howells
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(US) The symbol , known as an exclamation point.
(mathematics) A factorial, in mathematics, because the factorial of n is often written as n!
(figuratively) An act of sexual intercourse.
An offbeat figure typical of reggae songs and played on guitar and piano.
(slang, mining) An explosive product.
(slang, US, Boston area) An abrupt left turn.
(label) To make sudden loud noises, and often repeatedly, especially by exploding or hitting something.
(label) To hit hard.
* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
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To engage in sexual intercourse.
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* 1972 , (Mario Puzo) and (Francis Ford Coppola), (The Godfather) (film):
(with "in") To hammer or to hit anything hard.
(label) To cut squarely across, as the tail of a horse, or a person's forelock; to cut (the hair).
* The Century Magazine
, directly.
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With a sudden impact.
a verbal emulation of a sudden percussive sound
Tramp is a related term of bang.
As a noun tramp
is (pejorative) a homeless person, a vagabond.As a verb tramp
is to walk with heavy footsteps.tramp
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was frankly disappointed. For some reason she had thought to discover a burglar of one or another accepted type—either a dashing cracksman in full-blown evening dress, lithe, polished, pantherish, or a common yegg, a red-eyed, unshaven burly brute in the rags and tatters of a tramp .
- "I can't believe you'd let yourself be seen with that tramp ."
- "Claudia is such a tramp ; making out with all those men when she has a boyfriend."
- I was so happy on board that ship, I could not have believed it possible. We had the beastliest weather, and many discomforts; but the mere fact of its being a tramp -ship gave us many comforts; we could cut about with the men and officers, stay in the wheel-house, discuss all manner of things, and really be a little at sea.
- Then I think I conceive of other worlds and vast structures that pass us by, within a few miles, without the slightest desire to communicate, quite as tramp vessels pass many islands without particularizing one from another.
- Some of these are regular ocean liners; others are casual tramp ships.
- “Hrrumph,” said the Mate. “Get into uniform right away, we must have discipline here.” With that he stalked off as if he were First Mate on one of the Queens instead of just on a dirty, rusty old tramp ship.
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- The starting place for the tramp is reached over a gravel road that begins on Route 3 about a mile south of Gorham spur.
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- Speaking of knockout panoramas, if you?re fit then consider doing the taxing, winding, 8km tramp' up ' Mt Roy (1578m; five to six hours return), start 6km from Wanaka on Mt Aspiring Rd.
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- The 1½-hour tramp passes through banksia, gum, and wattle forests, with spectacular views of peaks and valleys.
Synonyms
* (homeless person) bum, hobo, vagabond ** See also * (disreputable woman) See also * (type of ship) see * (long walk) bushwalk, hike, ramble, trekDerived terms
* tramp ant * tramp stampVerb
(en verb)- We tramped through the woods for hours before we found the main path again.
- to tramp the country
- (Jamieson)
Derived terms
* trample * trompReferences
bang
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- When he struck it with a hammer, there was a loud bang .
- Tiffany has long hair and bangs .
- his hair cut in front like a young lady's bang
- An e-mail address with an ! is called a bang path.
- Load the bang into the hole.
Synonyms
* strike, blow * explosion * (hair cut) fringe, bangs * exclamation point, exclamation markAntonyms
* (abrupt left turn) hangVerb
(en verb)- The desperate tempest hath so banged the Turks.
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- Moe Greene: He was banging cocktail waitresses two at a time!
- His hair banged even with his eyebrows.
Synonyms
* nailAdverb
(en adverb)- The passenger door was bang against the garage wall.
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- ''He arrived bang on time.
- Distracted, he ran bang into the opening door.
Interjection
(en interjection)- He pointed his finger at her like a gun and said, "Bang !"
