A derogatory term for a lower back tattoo on a female. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lower_back_tattoo It is called this for the same reason that people make any derogatory comment about a group of people: ignorance, prejudice, arrogance, and judgment.

When I was growing up it was refered to as a hickey as in when someone sucks on your body and you end up with a blood clot somewhere. This probably has something to with a person who engages freely in promiscuous sex and gets marked in the process.

Its a tattoo that is on the loser part of your body. like on the back..above the butt. this is called a tramp stamp because, some people think that.. girls or guys i guess get this for attention or want people to look.

Tatoo on the lower part of a woman's back... its basically a target when hitting it from the back.

tramp stamp is a tatoo on the lower part of a girls back. when the "tramp" wears tight fitting clothing, as many "tramps" are prone to do her shirt will come up as she bends over, just enough to allow a full view of the tattoo and usually the top of her buttcrack. this mark is like a target for men in bars who are looking for a good time, because no one but a promiscuous woman would decorate her body in a location that can only (fully) be viewed while having sex with her in the "doggy style" position. also watch the movie wedding crashers for a more n depth dialogue about lower back tattoos

I think lower back tattoos are kind of hot, and if I ever got a tattoo, that's where I would get it.

Good question. I love Vince Vaugh's line in Wedding Crashers, "Might as well be a target." Haha. I know the answer but I'm not going to post it...hehe...because I'd blush too much. I'm sure somebody else will enlighten us all ;)

Hahaha! I've already declined to comment on this one. Pretty cool though. I think it's kind of hot.

I thought someone else would answer this properly! LOL jeez louise, Im too much of a lady to describe such things... but yes, thats the "bulls-eye" as they call it. lol tramp stamp, i never heard that particular one!! So you have educated ME ;)

tramp stamps are food stampsthey used to be paper like play money but they are now like a credit card. it is called this as tramp usually homeless people used them. well i just read what everyone else was on about. and it isnt this lol

its the typical tattoo on a girls lower back, its called a tramp stamp cause its usually the typical party girl that ends up taking there clothes off at the end of the party. im not saying all girls with that tattoo do, im saying its a stereotype

A dance done in Turkey to honor the god of fertility.

Lower back tattoos are NOT tramp stamps. Lower back tattoos are called 'peek a boo' A tramp stamp is right above the crack of your ass. There is a good 3 inches of difference between a tramp stamp and peekaboo. Trampstamp= above crack of ass (tailbone) Peekaboo=Lower back.

It gives you something to look at when you're pumping her from behind.

A tramp stamp is a tattoo that is located directly on the small of the back. It is called that because it doesn't show unless the pants or skirt is low enough to show . . . quite like a tramp would wear her clothes.

A true tramp stamp is not only on the back. It can be on the breast, lower back left shoulder blade or on the arms and wrist. A little known fact is that back in the pioneer days, and even farther back in the colonial days, various people were tattooed with a tribal type of tattoo, to show the world that they were UN-faithful and /or could not be trusted. This is where the term tramp stamp came from. Most of the woman who received them were called tramps. The Brain

postage to mail my sister home?

It's a rather disrespectful, pejorative label for the choice of an adventurous-type youthful woman with flexible relative moral and aesthetic sensibilities to express her iconoclasm and individuality (and/or to piss off her conservative parents) with bodyart located on the small of her back. Some males of perhaps rather dubious archetypal feminine ideals and fashion tastes consider this very provocative and sexually desirable. While many others do not, hence the source of the personal slight, which you gotta admit is hilarious! ;-)

Just a short comment. Ladies if you decide or have already got one, you may want to watch the following video: http://gprime.net/video.php/tattooremover

Its similar to a bar code, or a "made in" or " inspected by..." sticker, but it signifies something different, apparently...

*TRAMP STAMP definiton (SLANG) Tramp stamp is the slang name for a tattoo, most commonly placed on the small of females back. * *Source About as an accurate a name as the theory that every single women in the whole entire universe with their right nostril pierced is a lesbian. lol x

A tramp stamp is a tattoo that is placed on a womans lower back and it is called this because people assume that she likes to have sex.

bulls eye, tramp stamp what ever you call its still the same thing. Lower back tattoos. i have one but its cause i like tattoos(i have them all over my back.) not cause i want my ass looked at.

One thing that nobody seemed to pick up on is that there is more to the term than just the suggestion that a person who has a "tramp stamp" is a tramp. There is also that little word "stamp" in there. This is because there are certain kinds of people out there who don't really care WHAT they put on their bodies; that is, content is not important to them. They just want something superficially cool and trendy that will draw quick attention, and so they get a rather generic item "stamped" on to their body, cookie-cutter style. It is typically placed in an area where the gaze of an admirer will be drawn to an erogenous body area, most commonly the lower back, especially as short shirts and low-rise pants became more popular. The tramp stamp, as opposed to some other tattoos, is NOT art. It's kitsche. It is precisely that need for quick attention from random hook-up hopefuls that usually lands THIS TYPE of tattoo on THAT TYPE of person. It's all about superficiality. Guys do this, too, by the way, like with those super-lame, trendy bicep tattoos of tribal patterns, or barbed wire...you know who you are. These are the types of tattoos that are meant to be seen from across a fitness club.

From a distance, it looks like a woman has a license plate above her ass.

a tramp stamp is a woman's lower back tattoo. It's called this because women with lower back tattoos are usually loose, and the women usually get lower back tattoos to let guys know they like anal.

a "tramp stamp" is a term that some men use to degrade women who have a lower back tattoo, because they view the woman as unconventional (or threatening).

In the United States, a lower back tattoo is pejoratively referred to as “tramp stamps” or “California license plates” in Australia, the Netherlands and Germany as “arse antlers” and in the UK as “slag tags” If you still don't know what a tramp stamp is check out this video or go to TrampStampNation.net

It's called this because stupid people seem to think you can judge a person's character based on the placement of their tattoo. I would argue that this is likely the smartest place for a woman to get a tattoo since it doesn't tend to stretch during pregnancy like your stomach does and doesn't sag or become flabby with age as do your boobs, arms and legs. But hey, keep judging if you want...you'll likely miss out on getting to know some pretty cool people.

I think the craze for tatoos has gone overboard and will start to dwindle. As for the ones on the lower back, they beat the ones on the bum.

Cuz its on the lower back...and when your doing it...its right there in site Or the only other time somebody sees it is when their shirt comes up...or is too short. Its just a lousy place to put it....unless you "want" people to see it...(when they arent sposed to see it)...if that makes sense.

Well we don't, we just call them Ass Antlers...lol

Because a lot of people got tattoos right along the waistline of their pants, basically drawing attention to the fact that their shirt or pants are cut to be revealing. Generally a tattoo with no real meaning, like a bunch of swirls or something. described as "something to look at when you're nailing her from behind." I think you can get a lower-back tattoo and *not* have it be a tramp stamp, though I'm biased because I have my own lower-back tattoo. :) I figure I didn't get it on impulse, it does mean something to me, and it's high up enough that most of my shirts don't show it. A lot of people don't know I have it unless I tell them.

no, but i dont like tats on women anywhere!

I guess they are called that because every tramp has one and they are put there for the sole purpose that someone might see it. I call them ass horns, but that is just because that's what it looks like.

I think it is because many people think they make the wearer look cheap and, well, trampy.

I nearly got one of those myself when I was younger, some tribal rubbish. I am so glad I didn't now... just looks cheap, tacky, un-original and things like that haven't got any particular or sentimental meaning.

a tramp is a fucking bum

Desiree has them backwards. Ask a tattoo artist! A Peek-A-Boo tattoo is one normally hidden, either under skin folds (like underarms, underside of the breast, or a part of the body normally covered with clothing, hence the name!) A Tramp stamp is in fact the lower-back tattoo and as Brain noted, this identified untrustworthy/unfaithful types going back centuries. And so far, every woman I have met with one has lived up to the stereotype..