Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To tread or trample heavily or violently on.
- v. To tread or trample heavily or violently.
- n. A dance involving a rhythmical, heavy step.
- n. The jazz music for this dance.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
- v. transitive, intransitive To trample heavily.
- v. transitive, slang To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
- n. A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
- n. The jazz music for this dance.
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. colloq. To stamp with the foot.
WordNet 3.0
- v. walk heavily
- n. a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step
Etymologies
- 1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen ("to stomp"). More at stamp. (Wiktionary)
- Variant of stamp. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Stomp on it. * stomp stomp* Same thing as it was before I decided to turn on the brain.”
“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.”
“Write, call stomp your feet - insist they RUN away from this horribly expensive Health Insurance give away. by”
“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.”
“$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.”
“After Astros closer Billy Wagner vowed to "stomp" the Braves, Houston managed to score just six runs in this series.”
“Indian "stomp" dance to the delight of the guests who were leaning from their windows to applaud.”
“Still the 'stomp' with the peculiar significance, is better of course than the 'stamp' even with a rhyme ready for it, and I dare say you are justified in daring to put this old wine into the new bottle; and we will drink to the health of the poem in it.”
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett
“Still the 'stomp' with the peculiar significance, is better of course than the 'stamp' even with a rhyme ready for it, and”
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘stomp’.
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Fight scene words
Great words to teach you how to write a fight scene - and for those writers who want to get the old gears of the mind cranking, here's a few fight scene tips to get you started - this is NOT by me,...
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movement (fast)
words describing fast action or movement
( open list, randomness, descriptive )
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http://www.wordnik.com...hurry, run, scamper, skip, stride, stampede, trample, scramble, dart, spring, spin, sprint and 141 more...
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fight
words for fighting
( open list, randomness )bout, fight, match, smackdown, blue, stoush, battle, clash, fuss, fray, ruckus, tussle and 115 more...
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MUSIC - dance styles
A list generated by Phrontistery
http://phrontistery.info/dance.html
which I wanted to have along with my own lists on Wordnikallemande, beguine, bergamask, bolero, bossa-nova, boston, bourrée, bransle, buck-and-wing, cabriole, cakewalk, canary and 93 more...
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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Genes
Interesting gene names. Some of these may have changed recently (to something less offensive/funny).
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tinman, agnostic, dreadlocks, Van Gogh, fruitless, lava lamp, ariadne, cheap date, ken and barbie, I'm not dead yet, I'm not dead yet 2, manic fringe and 1192 more... -
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sabaton, sabbatarian, sabbulonarium, sabelline, sabin, sable, sabliere, sabot, sabretache, sabulous, saburration, saccade and 1593 more...
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MUSIC - jazz
Afro, habanera, pentatonic scale, bop, bebop, jazz, cool jazz, pentatonic, malignment, music genre, jazz musician, syncopate and 437 more...
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sound (loud)
words for loud sounds
( open list, descriptive, randomness )
also see:
http://www.wordnik.com/lists/onomatopo...crash, thud, bump, thump, boom, smash, explode, roar, scream, screech, short, yell and 168 more...
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Baby, Work Out!
Names of popular or once dances.
hully gully, slauson, twist, jitterbug, stroll, pony, mashed potato, swim, jerk, watusi, boogaloo, worm and 54 more...
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Words that hurt
A collection of words that inflict pain. If you liked this, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunch_Money_(game)
jab, headbutt, headlock, choke, elbow, grab, kick, slap, roundhouse, spinning backfist, stomp, uppercut and 40 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
Words used to create the names of Pokémon, which are usually portmanteaux.
bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, S
scrunch, solace, sabotage, saccade, sacerdotal, sacrilegious, sacristy, snappy, skew, steadfast, scowl, scorch and 781 more...
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zzyyxx's Words
plethora, drout, functional, rye, wring, doubt, cognative, weird, gnaw, surcease, rend, languish and 438 more...
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Words I have to learn
exasperate, felony, weld, fraud, worksheet, ransom, rehearse, preliminary, offshore, parole, infamous, sieve and 436 more...
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Winter's Bone vocabulary
Study list of difficult words from Daniel Woodrell's novel Winter's Bone. In reverse order: start at the bottom to see words from the beginning of the novel!
plaid, lazy susan, lope, furtive, dour, scamper, hard-boiled, implacable, dainty, stomp, resignation, crank and 138 more...
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