traipse

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   informal: to walk from place to place, especially wearily, reluctantly, or over a needlessly long distance

   We had to traipse across town in the rain to collect the missing document.

Recorded as a verb from the late sixteenth century, traipse is of uncertain origin. Its form and meaning have long been associated with tramp and with weary or untidy walking; trapse is an archaic spelling.

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