trampy outfit
- noun
- Offensive
:
atuendo provocador
- Her mother disapproved of the trampy outfit she wore to the club.
Examples
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The tabloid criticized the celebrity for wearing a trampy outfit on the red carpet.
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Is that really a trampy outfit for a wedding?
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He joked that his Halloween costume was just an excuse to wear a trampy outfit.
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She wore a trampy outfit to the party.
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Her friends warned her not to wear such a trampy outfit to the family gathering.
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He received multiple complaints for his trampy outfit at the office party.
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The fashion critic described the singer's trampy outfit as controversial and lacking class.
Synonyms
Clothes that show a lot of skin to look sexy
How Provocative
Surface Forms
Morphology
The noun phrase is directly compositional: 'trampy' (sexually suggestive/cheap) modifies 'outfit' (clothing ensemble), so the overall meaning — an outfit that appears sexually provocative or in poor taste — follows straightforwardly from the parts. This adjective+noun pattern is a common, cross-linguistically transparent construction, so a learner who knows both words would readily infer the intended sense.
Etymology
Trampy outfit may come from the word tramp, which first meant a person who walked from place to place and later became a rude name for someone 'seen as too sexual'. So a trampy outfit means clothes that look cheap or very sexual, and people use the phrase to say the clothes are not 'modest'.