Editing Tramp (section)

==Meaning promiscuous woman==
Perhaps because female tramps were often regarded as prostitutes, in the [[American English|United States]] the term "tramp" also came to refer to a promiscuous woman. However, this  is not a global usage.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/british/tramp|title=tramp definition, meaning - what is tramp in the British English Dictionary & Thesaurus - Cambridge Dictionaries Online|work=cambridge.org}}</ref> According to Australian linguist [[Kate Burridge]], the term shifted towards this meaning in the 1920s, having previously predominantly referred to men, it followed the path of other similar gender neutral words (such as "[[slut|slag]]") to having specific reference to female sexual laxity.<ref>Kate Burridge, ''Blooming English: Observations on the Roots, Cultivation and Hybrids of the English Language'', Cambridge University Press, 2004, p.60.</ref>

The word is also used, with ambiguous irony, in the classic 1937 [[Rodgers and Hart]] song "[[The Lady Is a Tramp]]", which is about a wealthy member of New York [[Upper class|high society]] who chooses a vagabond life in "[[hobohemia]]".<ref>Gary Marmorstein, ''A Ship Without A Sail: The Life of Lorenz Hart'', Simon and Schuster, 2013, p.298.</ref> Other songs with implicit or explicit reference to this usage include ''[[The Son of Hickory Holler's Tramp]]'' and ''[[Gypsys, Tramps & Thieves]]''.