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Used as a verb here, the word also calls to mind the noun. A tramp tramps. A tramp is someone cut free (by choice or circumstance) from the expected routines of life. He is out on the open road, owning nothing but what he can carry, doing whatever the road calls him to do. I wonder if part of our deep love of [|Charlie Chaplin's] silent character (The Little Tramp) doesn't flow from the same well of freedom that WW draws on here.

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