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   Traipse

   /trāps/

   

   verb

   • 1. walk or move wearily or reluctantly: "students had to traipse all over Washington to attend lectures"
   • ▪ walk about casually or needlessly: "there's people traipsing in and out all the time"

   noun

   • 1. a tedious or tiring journey on foot.
   • 2. a slovenly woman. archaic

   Word Origin late 16th century (as a verb): of unknown origin. The noun is first recorded in traipse (sense 2 of the noun) in the late 17th century.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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