Tramp vs. Trap — What's the Difference?

A tramp is a long-term homeless person who travels from place to place as a vagrant, traditionally walking all year round.

A contrivance for catching and holding animals, as a concealed pit or a clamplike device that springs shut suddenly.

Walk heavily or noisily

A stratagem for catching or tricking an unwary person.

A person who travels from place to place on foot in search of work or as a vagrant or beggar.

A confining or undesirable circumstance from which escape or relief is difficult:fell into poverty's trap.

The sound of heavy steps

A device for sealing a passage against the escape of gases, especially a U-shaped or S-shaped bend in a drainpipe that prevents the return flow of sewer gas by means of a water barrier.

A long walk, typically a tiring one

A device that hurls clay pigeons into the air in trapshooting.

A cargo vessel that carries goods between many different ports rather than sailing a fixed route

A land hazard or bunker on a golf course; a sand trap.

A woman who has many casual sexual encounters or relationships.

TrapsA measured length of roadway over which electronic timers register the speed of a racing vehicle, such as a dragster.

A metal plate protecting the sole of a boot used for digging.

(Baseball)See web.

To walk with a firm, heavy step; trudge.

A defensive strategy or play, as in basketball or hockey, in which two or more defenders converge on an offensive player shortly after the player gains possession of the ball or puck.

To travel on foot; hike.

The act of trapping a soccer ball.

To wander about aimlessly.

(Football)A running play in which the ball carrier advances through a hole in the defensive line created by allowing a defensive lineman to penetrate the backfield.

To traverse on foot

A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

To tread down; trample

A trapdoor.

A heavy footfall.

Traps(Music)Percussion instruments, such as snare drums and cymbals, especially in a jazz band.

The sound produced by heavy walking or marching.

(Slang)The human mouth.

A walking trip; a hike.

Often traps Personal belongings or household goods.

One who travels aimlessly about on foot, doing odd jobs or begging for a living; a vagrant.

Any of several dark, fine-grained igneous rocks often used in making roads.

A prostitute.

To catch in a trap; ensnare.

A person regarded as promiscuous.

To prevent from escaping or getting free:was trapped in the locked attic.

(Nautical) A tramp steamer.

To deceive or trick by means of a scheme or plan.

A metal plate attached to the sole of a shoe for protection, as when spading ground.

To seal off (gases) by a trap.

A homeless person; a vagabond.

To furnish with traps or a trap.

(pejorative) A disreputable, promiscuous woman; a slut.

To catch (a ball) immediately after it has hit the ground.

Any ship which does not have a fixed schedule or published ports of call.

To gain control of (a moving soccer ball) by allowing it to hit and bounce off a part of the body other than the arm or hand.

A long walk, possibly of more than one day, in a scenic or wilderness area.

To set traps for game.

Clipping of trampoline, especially a very small one.

To engage in trapping furbearing animals.

Of objects, stray and intrusive and unwanted

To furnish with trappings.

A metal plate worn by diggers under the hollow of the foot to save the shoe.

A machine or other device designed to catch (and sometimes kill) animals, either by holding them in a container, or by catching hold of part of the body.

To walk with heavy footsteps.

A trick or arrangement designed to catch someone in a more general sense; a snare.

To walk for a long time (usually through difficult terrain).

A covering over a hole or opening; a trapdoor.

To hitchhike.

A kind of movable stepladder or set of stairs.

(transitive) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball.

(transitive) To travel or wander through.

The game of trapball itself.

To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

Any device used to hold and suddenly release an object.

To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.

A bend, sag, or other device in a waste-pipe arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents the escape of noxious gases, but permits the flow of liquids.

To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for lack of an outlet.

To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.

A successful landing on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

To travel; to wander; to stroll.

(historical) A light two-wheeled carriage with springs.

A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.

(slang) A person's mouth.

A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.

A policeman.

The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.

(in the plural) Belongings.

A tool for trimming hedges.

(slang) A cubicle (in a public toilet).

A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.

(sports) Trapshooting.

A disreputable vagrant;

(geology) A geological structure that creates a petroleum reservoir.

A person who engages freely in promiscuous sex

(computing) An exception generated by the processor or by an external event.

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

A mining license inspector during the Australian gold rush.

A heavy footfall;

A vehicle, residential building, or sidewalk corner where drugs are manufactured, packaged, or sold.

A commercial steamer for hire; one having no regular schedule

Someone who is anatomically male but who passes as female.

A long walk usually for exercise or pleasure

A fictional character from anime, or related media, who is coded as or has qualities typically associated with a gender other than the character's ostensible gender; otokonoko, josou.

Travel on on foot, especially on a walking expedition;

A genre of hip-hop music, with half-time drums and heavy sub-bass.

Walk heavily and firmly, as when weary, or through mud;

The money earned by a prostitute for a pimp.

Cross on foot;

An area, especially of a city, with a low level of opportunity and a high level of poverty and crime; a ghetto; a hood.

Move about aimlessly or without any destination, often in search of food or employment;

A dark coloured igneous rock, now used to designate any non-granitic igneous rock; trap rock.

The trapezius muscle.

(transitive) To physically capture, to catch in a trap or traps, or something like a trap.

(transitive) To ensnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

(transitive) To provide with a trap.

(intransitive) To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game.

To successfully land an aircraft on an aircraft carrier using the carrier's arresting gear.

(intransitive) To leave suddenly, to flee.

To sell illegal drugs, especially in a public area.

To capture (e.g. an error) in order to handle or process it.

To attend to and open and close a (trap-)door.

Of a 'trap': to trick a (heterosexual) man into having sex, by appearing to be a woman.

To dress with ornaments; to adorn (especially said of horses).

To dress with ornaments; to adorn; - said especially of horses.

To catch in a trap or traps; as, to trap foxes.

Fig.: To insnare; to take by stratagem; to entrap.

To provide with a trap; as, to trap a drain; to trap a sewer pipe. See 4th Trap, 5.

To set traps for game; to make a business of trapping game; as, to trap for beaver.

An old term rather loosely used to designate various dark-colored, heavy igneous rocks, including especially the feldspathic-augitic rocks, basalt, dolerite, amygdaloid, etc., but including also some kinds of diorite. Called also trap rock.

A machine or contrivance that shuts suddenly, as with a spring, used for taking game or other animals; as, a trap for foxes.

Fig.: A snare; an ambush; a stratagem; any device by which one may be caught unawares.

A wooden instrument shaped somewhat like a shoe, used in the game of trapball. It consists of a pivoted arm on one end of which is placed the ball to be thrown into the air by striking the other end. Also, a machine for throwing into the air glass balls, clay pigeons, etc., to be shot at.

The game of trapball.

A bend, sag, or partitioned chamber, in a drain, soil pipe, sewer, etc., arranged so that the liquid contents form a seal which prevents passage of air or gas, but permits the flow of liquids.

A place in a water pipe, pump, etc., where air accumulates for want of an outlet.

A wagon, or other vehicle.

A kind of movable stepladder.

Of or pertaining to trap rock; as, a trap dike.

A device in which something (usually an animal) can be caught and penned

Drain consisting of a U-shaped section of drainpipe that holds liquid and so prevents a return flow of sewer gas

Something (often something deceptively attractive) that catches you unawares;

A device to hurl clay pigeons into the air for trapshooters

The act of concealing yourself and lying in wait to attack by surprise

Informal terms for the mouth

A light two-wheeled carriage

A hazard on a golf course

Place in a confining or embarrassing position;

Catch in or as if in a trap;

Hold or catch as if in a trap;

To hold fast or prevent from moving;