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
BBC News - Home 2010
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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 2010
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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 2010
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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.
Feeling curvy? Or just fat? Ms Robinson 2009
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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’.
Women and War Jes 2009
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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.
Easter legs. 2009
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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’.
Archive 2009-01-01 Jes 2009
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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.
WalesOnline - Home WalesOnline 2011
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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.
The Guardian World News Martin Wainwright 2011
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