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tramp steamer en · NOUN
Meanings
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A commercial steamship that has no regular schedule or published ports of call.
They found out I was bright, so they figured I'd make a good labor organizer when I got out of school. When I left at the end of the summer, they carefully instructed me how to shag a tramp steamer in 'Frisco going south, lending me an old union card so I could work my passage as a deck hand.
1994 October, Harry Hay, “Focussing On NAMBLA Obscures The Issues”, in Gay Community News, page 16:
Forms
Relateds
tramp trade
Synonyms
ocean tramp