trapes (third-person singular simple present trapeses, present participle trapesing, simple past and past participle trapesed)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
trapes (plural trapeses)
Alternative spelling of traipse in reduced usage since about WWI
trapes
(seldom in use since about WWII, colloquial) A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman.
• Paster, Pearts, paster, paters, petars, prates, pretas, repast, repats, retaps, tapers, treaps
Source: Wiktionary
Trapes, n. Etym: [See Trape.]
Definition: A slattern; an idle, sluttish, or untidy woman. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Trapes, v. i.
Definition: To go about in an idle or slatternly fashion; to trape; to traipse. [Colloq.] Thackeray.
Trape, v. i. Etym: [See Tramp, and cf. Traipse.]
Definition: To walk or run about in an idle or slatternly manner; to traipse. [Obs. or Colloq.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
31 March 2025
(adjective) done or made using whatever is available; “crossed the river on improvised bridges”; “the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear”; “the rock served as a makeshift hammer”
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