单词 | saddle tramp |
释义 | > as lemmassaddle tramp saddle tramp n. North American slang a vagrant who travels by horse. ΚΠ 1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 5 June 7 [They] call themselves ‘Saddle Tramps’... One thousand miles on horseback..was the journey begun Thursday by K. W. Burton..and John E. Figley... The pair will rough it along the way. 1962 E. Lucia Klondike Kate 7 Most of them [sc. prostitutes] led wretched lives,..attached to gamblers, card sharps..saddle tramps, gun-slingers and rogues. 1979 Radio Times 5 May 23/2 Kirk Douglas back on the range for King Vidor, in the one about the saddle tramp up against the barbed wire. 2007 News & Observer (Raleigh, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 22 Apr. g4 The teenager [sc. Billy the Kid] spent the next two years traipsing around the mining camps, gambling, stealing horses and working as a saddle tramp. < as lemmas |
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