Definitions
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- noun A long-distance
march carrying full kit. - verb To make a
strenuous long-distancemarch .
Etymologies
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Examples
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An annual charity "yomp" across Dartmoor has been re-routed because of
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During the final yomp through the election battlegrounds, David Cameron will be adapting the motto of the SAS.
The British don't need to be hung up about a hung parliament
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Like everyone these days, the wee man from Belfast has been on a journey since turning pro in 2007, only his journey has been a fun-filled sprint rather than a tedious yomp.
The Open 2010: Rory McIlroy enjoys a day of fantasy at St Andrews
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Yet I am undeniably attractive, stylish and able to yomp around the countryside for hours on end without needing an oxygen tent.
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Whatever the rights, wrongs or otherwise of that South Atlantic yomp, and without accurate recollection of her many proclamations, I remember she made much of ‘the boys’ fighting out there, or even ‘her boys’.
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It was a bit of a yomp in truth; we got the bus to Balerno and then headed across the Kips and down to Flotterstone.
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Whatever the rights, wrongs or otherwise of that South Atlantic yomp, and without accurate recollection of her many proclamations, I remember she made much of ‘the boys’ fighting out there, or even ‘her boys’.
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As we started to put all our wet weather gear back on I asked Bill if he wanted to stay at Les Mottets for the night and I was hoping he did….but we left the shelter and headed up to the next col, at a bit of a yomp because of the risk of not haing a bed for the night.
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Went on a woodland yomp with my writer friends in Sussex last week.
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Savile earned respect from the crack regiment as one of only two civilians to complete a 30-mile yomp with full pack across Dartmoor - inevitably, to raise money for good causes.
errguitar commented on the word yomp
British Royal Marines term for long march with full kit - made popular by the yomp from San Carlos to Stanley during the Falklands war of 1982. Wikipedia yomp
June 11, 2008
MaryW commented on the word yomp
Kate Atkinson, One Good Turn (New York: Little, Brown & Co., 2006), p. 94.June 5, 2016