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stomp

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • intransitive verb To bring down (the foot) forcibly.
  • intransitive verb To bring the foot down onto (an object or surface) forcibly.
  • intransitive verb To tread or trample heavily or violently on.
  • intransitive verb To cause to be dislodged by stomping the feet.
  • intransitive verb To bring the foot down onto an object or surface forcibly.
  • intransitive verb To tread or trample heavily or violently.
  • intransitive verb To walk with forcible, heavy steps.
  • noun A dance involving a rhythmical, heavy step.
  • noun The jazz music for this dance.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A dialectal form of stamp; specifically, in coal-mining, one of the plugs of wood driven into the roof of the level, to which are fastened the “lines” serving to direct the miner in his proper course; they may also be used as bench-marks.
  • An obsolete form of stump.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • intransitive verb colloq. To stamp with the foot.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive, intransitive To trample heavily.
  • verb transitive, slang To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
  • noun A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
  • noun The jazz music for this dance.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb walk heavily
  • noun a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Variant of stamp.]

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen ("to stomp"). More at stamp.

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Examples

  • Stomp on it. * stomp stomp* Same thing as it was before I decided to turn on the brain.

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  • 21: 48 Listening: Link Wray-Link Wray (Polydor, 1971, vinyl) Once in a while a slab of swamp stomp is just what a feller needs to hear.

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  • Write, call stomp your feet - insist they RUN away from this horribly expensive Health Insurance give away. by

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  • His stomp is a perfect way to finish off any Majini that is grounded through any type of his own gunfire in order to add an additional five second bonus to the clock.

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  • His stomp is a perfect way to finish off any Majini that is grounded through any type of his own gunfire in order to add an additional five second bonus to the clock.

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  • $100 siya sa US, so more likely 4. 5k+ siya dito sa phils. compare mo yung DD or Axis sa isang elim or IC na naka stomp drive ... sobrang mura na siya

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  • Hey, it's 8: 00 a.m. JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: I was waiting for those guys from "stomp" to hit the garbage cans together.

    CNN Transcript Apr 8, 2008 2008

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