Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of playing in a boisterous manner; a game of romps.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Inclined to romp; indulging in romps.
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- verb Present participle of
romp .
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Examples
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"I could just see Leonie from my desk and she was smiling all over her face and romping, simply _romping_ through the
Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest
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Our dogs are daycare dogs, so they love the idea of romping and playing.
Archive 2006-07-01 Seeking Solace 2006
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Our dogs are daycare dogs, so they love the idea of romping and playing.
Doggie Date Night Seeking Solace 2006
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A sense of humour, I expect, is not a very common gift; Miss Bracely has none at all, for I do not call romping humour.
Queen Lucia 1903
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Yeah, it's been damn cold out, and the idea of romping around in the big icebox called the East End and workin 'your ladies for beads doesn't sound all that appealing.
Rochester City Newspaper Dale Evans 2010
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Yeah, it's been damn cold out, and the idea of romping around in the big icebox called the East End and workin 'your ladies for beads doesn't sound all that appealing.
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Jack Holloway chuckled; it looked like the kind of romping he and his Fuzzies had done on the lawn beside his camp, when there had been a lawn there and when there had just been his own Fuzzies.
The Fuzzy Papers Piper, H. Beam 1962
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Nobody showed a thimble but one or two old ladies; and as numbers and spirits gathered strength, a kind of romping game was set on foot, in which a vast deal of kissing seemed to be the grand wit of the matter.
Queechy 1854
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Nobody shewed a thimble but one or two old ladies; and as numbers and spirits gathered strength, a kind of romping game was set on foot in which a vast deal of kissing seemed to be the grand wit of the matter.
Queechy Susan Warner 1852
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Nobody showed a thimble but one or two old ladies; and as numbers and spirits gathered strength, a kind of romping game was set on foot, in which a vast deal of kissing seemed to be the grand wit of the matter.
Queechy, Volume I Susan Warner 1852
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