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- verb   Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flump .
- noun   Plural form of flump .
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Examples
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								She said nothink in answer, but flumps past me, and opening the parlor-door, sees master looking very queer, and Miss Mary a-drooping down her head like a pale lily. 
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								Then for some minutes did they twain stand and gaze upon one another, and at last down flumps my wife into a chair, as though she would break it in pieces for very rage; but being waxed sulky, and her own wrath cowed, as 'twere, by her daughter's more righteous wrath, she saith nothing more of 't, good or bad. A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales Am��lie Rives 1904 
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								She said nothink in answer, but flumps past me, and opening the parlor-door, sees master looking very queer, and Miss Mary a-drooping down her head like a pale lily. The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush William Makepeace Thackeray 1837 
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								A season that began with terrifying Terminator-like certainty and relentlessness now flumps along with all the poise and elan of, well, the aforementioned dancing steak-and-kidney product. The Guardian World News John Ashdown 2011 
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								They fell upon the iharp fpikes, and were entangled among the flumps and boughs through A philosophical and political history of the British settlements and trade in North America ... 1779 
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								Almoft on every corn - field there yet remained the flumps of trees, which had been cut down; a proof that this country has not been long culti - vated, being overgrown with trees forty or fifty years ago. 
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								hootle mctootle looks like pootle remember the flumps? 
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								Don’t know any interesting facts about the flumps, but I lurved them to bits. Mr Mania 2006 
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