(n.) One who tramps; a stroller; a vagrant or vagabond; a tramp.
Example Sentences:
(1) But it is difficult not to conclude that the survey, which ends on St Andrew’s day, 30 November, has been something of a fools errand for those loyal driveway-trampers.
Trash
Definition:
(n.) That which is worthless or useless; rubbish; refuse.
(n.) Especially, loppings and leaves of trees, bruised sugar cane, or the like.
(n.) A worthless person.
(n.) A collar, leash, or halter used to restrain a dog in pursuing game.
(v. t.) To free from trash, or worthless matter; hence, to lop; to crop, as to trash the rattoons of sugar cane.
(v. t.) To treat as trash, or worthless matter; hence, to spurn, humiliate, or crush.
(v. t.) To hold back by a trash or leash, as a dog in pursuing game; hence, to retard, encumber, or restrain; to clog; to hinder vexatiously.
(v. i.) To follow with violence and trampling.
Example Sentences:
(1) William Burroughs called the film director John Waters "the pope of trash".
(2) The public servants’ ethos, their attachment to the civic realm, has been systematically trashed as mere unionised self-interest.
(3) The phrase "Frankenfood" entered tabloid English at the turn of the last century when protesters, backed by the green movement, trashed GM crops wearing white overalls and face masks as an emotive PR tactic.
(4) I was told the Guardian had been too negative about Playboy in the past, and that they were also wary after a recent "trashing in the Sunday Times magazine – where Mr Hefner underwent a complete character assassination".
(5) "It's as if they are trying to trash the Copenhagen accord."
(6) It does not give people the right to come on to a green belt … and to trash it.
(7) There was trash talking though – motherflippers and Bad Words must fly about on court all the time ... Now and again you'd get trash talkers.
(8) Two years later, the offices of Mohamed Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood were trashed after an all-night siege , with looters seizing door-labels of prominent Brotherhood leaders as trophies.
(9) We should be proud, actually, of what we've done, and we need to defend it a bit more, because they try to trash it, don't they?
(10) Putin could have been forgiven for allowing himself a wry grin, as another court comprehensively trashed Berezovsky's reputation.
(11) Adrian Clark, style director of Shortlist , is throwing a trailer-trash curveball: "a pair of vintage black leather Versace jeans with zips – wrong in all the right ways – Gucci biker boots and bespoke tailoring by Gieves & Hawkes , Richard James and Mr Start".
(12) The then education minister, Christopher Pyne, dismissed the call, saying the government didn’t as a rule trash funding agreements already in place.
(13) Iceland This strange and beautiful country is now as flooded with satellite trash as everywhere else, but is listed in the futile hope that the suppression it once practised might be revived.
(14) Hawaii, however, is in line for several deposits of tsunami trash.
(15) This is a guy whose last feature, Trash Humpers , was 80 minutes of old people shagging foliage.
(16) The potential for production of fine particulate from botanical trash materials plus lint and linters was determined in the laboratory by an abrasive milling test.
(17) "Mr Hester's job at RBS in the last three years has not been made any easier by the incompetence of EU politicians, whose inept and moribund approach to the sovereign debt crisis has trashed the banking sector's value.
(18) Coe claimed that Britain's international reputation would be "trashed" if it reneged on a promise given to retain the track that was made during the bidding process.
(19) The Greens argued the government was “trashing long-established legal norms”.
(20) In any case, the young woman, also a student at Florida State (or she was until she left campus earlier this year) is getting trashed all over the place : on sports sites, in newspaper comment sections, in bars where fans hang out.