to traipse around the shops

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• traipse — [treıps] v [I always + adverb/preposition] [Date: 1500 1600; Origin: Perhaps from Old French trepasser; TRESPASS1] informal to walk somewhere in a slow or unwilling way because you are tired or bored traipse around/through/across etc ▪ I ve been… …   Dictionary of contemporary English

• traipse — verb (intransitive always + adv/prep) informal to walk somewhere slowly and unwillingly when you are tired (+ up/down/around etc): I ve been traipsing round the shops all morning …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

• traipse — [[t]tre͟ɪps[/t]] traipses, traipsing, traipsed 1) VERB If you traipse somewhere, you go there unwillingly, often because you are tired or unhappy. [V prep/adv] If traipsing around shops does not appeal to you, perhaps using a catalogue will... [V …   English dictionary