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traipse

[ treyps ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

verb (used without object)

, traipsed, traips·ing.

to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal:
We traipsed all over town looking for a copy of the book.

, traipsed, traips·ing.

traipse

/ treɪps /

Origin of traipse¹

First recorded in 1585–95; earlier trapse, unexplained variant of trape, of disputed origin; perhaps obscurely akin to tramp

Origin of traipse¹

C16: of unknown origin

Buy a pair of these and traipse around a big city center or off road through the Icelandic countryside.

Get your own tailored tuxedo blazer to traipse around town in.

Its massive platform gives city dwellers the opportunity to traipse around with relatively painless added height.

We imagine the cadre of Hollywood starlets who like to traipse about commando would be severely handicapped in this event.

And what's more, you just don't need to traipse along another step with me now.

Goodness knows where you may have dropped it, and if you think I'm going to traipse back you're much mistaken.

She was a young forty, yet somehow hardly young enough to traipse houseless after him wherever his whim might lead him.

Women, whose age it is impossible to tell, trail and traipse in front of alleys within which loom greasy, black staircases.

“More as two months ve traipse all ofer,” volunteered the latter.

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