verb. (American).—To walk, tramp, wander about: cf. VAMOOSE. Also TRAMPOUS and TRAMPOOS.

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  c. 1816.  D. HUMPHREYS, The Yankee in England.

        Some years ago, I landed near to Dover,
And seed strange sights, TRAMPOOSING England over.

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  1837.  HALIBURTON (‘Sam Slick’), The Clockmaker, 387. I had been down city all day TRAMPOOSING everywhere a’most to sell some stock. Ibid. (1843–4), The Attaché, ii. I felt as lonely as a catamount, and as dull as a bachelor beaver; so I TRAMPOUSSES off to the stable.

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  1843.  W. T. PORTER, ed., The Big Bear of Arkansas, etc., 44. So we TRAMPOUSED along down the edge of the swamp, till we came to a track.

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