(v. i.) To toil; to drudge; especially, to study laboriously and patiently.
(v. t.) To walk on slowly or heavily.
Example Sentences:
(1) Thrasher Mitchell: Then why is that idiot Bernard Hogan-Howe getting a knighthood when his plebby plods tried to stitch me up?
(2) In one way they were right to state the obvious – because Celtic were utter plod at the back – but hubris is best not displayed until you are beyond the reach of vengeance, as opposed to being about to walk into the fortress of the foe you have just mocked.
(3) Certainly Alan has far warmer feelings towards the Kop hero than whoever it was that compared him to Leicestershire's premier plodding lad rockers.
(4) The plodding football we saw earlier in the season has been replaced by the old, thrilling excitement and the volume was turned high.
(5) But now, of course, everyone's doing it – and if you can really contemplate spending an entire evening out of your painfully short life watching Ocean Colour Scene plod through Moseley Shoals then, honestly, get some help.
(6) What I actually did was marry the mind-numbing tedium of a second-rate reality show, with the plodding boredom of a sub-standard pub quiz.
(7) He is remarkable for his ineptitude.” “I suggest that you know perfectly well how addressing an officer as PC Plod what would have been his reaction.” “You accept a possibility that you said that to him and if you did as I suggest you did, it shows a complete insensitivity to the police providing your protection.” Later, Browne asked him about another incident, when a trip from Kenya to Somalia was delayed and he was said to have launched into a foul-mouthed tirade and “exploded”.
(8) And I think if we get 10, 15 or 20% buy-in in the schools, getting the results by building students who are independent, imaginative and resourceful, then plodding along behind will be central government and policymakers who will design a policy to support it.
(9) I believe that a lighthearted exchange could have taken place.” “PC Plod is the Toyland constable in the Noddy stories isn’t he?” Browne said.
(10) 7.31pm BST Meanwhile it's still very plodding from Barcelona.
(11) In one post, Jack ponders how the beat cops of 15 years ago have evolved from Doc Martens-wearing, wooden-stick carrying plods into tooled-up, taser-wielding "imperial stormtroopers".
(12) The plodding Najib's overriding objective is winning the general election expected next year, possibly within a few months.
(13) But more than any previous visit by an American president, yesterday was charged with history - deep history, that is, dating back to the American revolution of 1776; a sense of restlessly creative America embarking on an adventure while the ancien régime plods on the edge of fin-de-something.
(14) The first thing they’re going to say is: “It wasn’t the Brummie Boardwalk we were promised!” Look them in the eye and respond: “Oh, so you wanted it to plod through two seasons of stodgy plots bogged down by political machinations no one but a policy wonk could get excited about before really getting going in seasons 3 and 4?” Then wait for the applause anyone within earshot will give you.
(15) Right now, there’s a kind of plodding earnestness to Seattle’s approach play as they dutifully rather than artfully switch the point of attack.
(16) We do not believe four more years on the same plodding course toward economic recovery is the best path forward for Texas or the nation.
(17) As time plodded on and an understanding of the biological complexity increased, the task seemed bigger and bigger.
(18) Gary dons his board shorts and plods gingerly to the pool.
(19) It is a bit plodding but it does achieve its objective at the end of the day.” Campaign concerns There are concerns that the campaign lacks a heart.
(20) Could the Times and the Sunday Times plod on losing perhaps £60m a year between them, with editorial staffing maybe 200 more than the Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph ?
Tramp
Definition:
(v. i.) To tread upon forcibly and repeatedly; to trample.
(v. i.) To travel or wander through; as, to tramp the country.
(v. i.) To cleanse, as clothes, by treading upon them in water.
(v. i.) To travel; to wander; to stroll.
(n.) A foot journey or excursion; as, to go on a tramp; a long tramp.
(n.) A foot traveler; a tramper; often used in a bad sense for a vagrant or wandering vagabond.
(n.) The sound of the foot, or of feet, on the earth, as in marching.
(n.) A tool for trimming hedges.
(n.) A plate of iron worn to protect the sole of the foot, or the shoe, when digging with a spade.
Example Sentences:
(1) The Communist party mouthpiece newspaper the People’s Daily said in an editorial that the tribunal had ignored “basic truths” and “tramped” on international laws and norms.
(2) I couldn't handle the hangovers: waking up in the sticky filth of the Colony Room on the floor; sweating my way though meetings at White Cube; going to meet Larry [Gagosian] on the Anadin, the Nurofen, the Berocca and the Vicks nasal spray, looking like an alcoholic tramp.
(3) They left him with an enduring sympathy for the poor and marginalised, embodied in his Little Tramp character .
(4) She would tramp to the village phone box and wait for some ringing and then quiz me about eating greens and clean handkerchiefs and comprehensively diss my dad, who had left home to "find himself" – in the arms of a local paramour.
(5) The only other person Drake ever wrote a song for was, bizarrely enough, Millie, of My Boy Lollipop, who recorded a reggae song of his called May Fair, one of those “quaint” pieces of observation – a rich lady getting in a chauffeured limousine while a tramp ambles past at the exact same moment.
(6) May, the provincial vicar’s daughter, has done her time tramping the streets, stuffing envelopes, working the local Conservative association circuit.
(7) In her day this was a gritty neighbourhood and it hasn’t changed much, with a shabby market by the metro station and blocks of peeling townhouses; this is the real, old Paris, the world she sang about, with its desperate cast of thieves and tramps and lovers.
(8) "Personally I longed for human society and for exercise (a good long tramp for example), but no doubt Odilo had his reasons".
(9) Instagram photos showed them tramping around New York, bowler hatted and hand in hand.
(10) This tireless, Glasgow-built cargo ship has been tramping between Kampala and Mwanza, Tanzania's second most populous city, for more than 40 years.
(11) The Clos was created in 1933 by the city of Paris on what was previously, according to a municipal tin placard, "a waste land, the refuge of tramps and a playground for local children".
(12) Diplomats and staff tramped across the rain-soaked grass of the UN’s Rose Garden on the banks of the East River to watch.
(13) A tramp who smacks himself repeatedly about the body.
(14) But as we tramp back to the village, it’s worth mourning that golden age of privacy, and the city that allowed people to reinvent themselves like the characters in Lou Reed’s Walk on the Wild Side.
(15) His work has often been obliquely autobiographical – never quite his story, but yes, he was a history boy back in the day preparing for Oxford; yes, you could draw comparisons with the repressed gay man he plays in A Chip in the Sugar; yes, he did give refuge to a tramp who parked her van in his driveway for 15 years, and so it goes.
(16) Gideon wondering how many coins there are in a pound then snorting through his nose as he draws a penis murdering a tramp on his satchel.
(17) And I can tramp through snowstorms late at night when no one is stirring and feel the kind of excitement John Muir (father of the US national parks) must have felt when he spent a stormy night up a tree just to embrace it and know what it endured in the absence of reportorial creatures.
(18) And, like tramps, we expect to be moved on, sooner or later, as more and more of London’s public space becomes private.
(19) Richard, a long-time mountain devotee, agrees: "As someone who's tramped over its slopes many, many times, I simply don't understand how a mountain can be valued at £1.75m to pay off tax.
(20) Elevated affective excitability was the most common of all psychopathy-like disorders, followed by the syndrome of home leaving and tramping, the aggressive-sadistic syndrome, and mental instability.