Tramp

Someone who travels randomly and does not work. This is not the same as a migrant laborer, who travels a fairly fixed route and works, a hobo tramp, who travels randomly but does work, or a bum, who neither travels nor works.

See also Bum, Hobo, On the Bum and Vagabond.

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