tramp steamer

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tramp steamer

noun tramp steamers

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.
Similar: ocean tramp

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@misc{tramp_steamer_2026,
  title = {tramp steamer},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/tramp%20steamer},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}