Green’s Dictionary of Slang

tramp v.2

[SE tramp, to stamp on, to crush]

(Aus.) to dismiss (from a job).

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Bendigo Advertiser (Vi.c) 17 July 8/4: There were numerous instances in which men had been sent away to these construction works but not given a start, while these who had been ‘tramped’ - often very good man - after working a day or so, were very many .
[Aus]Direct Action (Sydney) 1 Oct. 2/3: The Aborigines man was ‘tramped’ for the same reason that anyone is deprived of the right to live, retrenchment, re-organising the staff, or just because he wasn’t wanted any longer, he was sacked, anyhow.
[Aus]Workers’ Wkly (Sydney) 13 Jan. 4/1: When rank and filers in the A.W.U. kicked against their officials’ intolerable tyranny and yellow policy, they were suspended by their officials and tramped by the boss.
[Aus]Scone Advocate 29 Mar. 4/5: He sure got rid of the job orrite. He just got hisself tramped and on account uv ow he looked just like a sick hen, I tolled Selsie he cood scratch my check out as well.
[Aus]T.A.G. Hungerford Riverslake 20: I want to get rid of this crap before Verity comes in. He’d tramp me like a shot if he got a slew at it.
[Aus]R. Aven-Bray Ridgey-Didge Oz Jack Lang 49: Tramp Fire from job.
[Aus]Aus. Word Map 🌐 tramp. To be given the ‘sack’ from a job.

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tramp on the gas (v.)

to accelerate.

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[US]J. Evans Halo in Blood (1988) 12: I swung my wheel still more to the right and tramped on the gas and lit out.

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