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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To tread or trample heavily or violently on.
  2. v. To tread or trample heavily or violently.
  3. n. A dance involving a rhythmical, heavy step.
  4. n. The jazz music for this dance.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. 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.
  2. An obsolete form of stump.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To trample heavily.
  2. v. To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
  3. n. A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step.
  4. n. The jazz music for this dance.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To stamp with the foot.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. walk heavily
  2. n. a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step

Etymologies

  1. Variant of stamp.

Examples

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

    hemopoetic Diary Entry

  • “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.”

    Tweets I have known

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

    Walk Away From the Health Reform Bill

  • “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.”

    IGN Complete

  • “$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”

    TALK @ PhilMusic.com - The Online Home of the Pinoy Musician

  • “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

  • “After Astros closer Billy Wagner vowed to "stomp" the Braves, Houston managed to score just six runs in this series.”

    National League Baseball - Astros vs. Braves

  • “Indian "stomp" dance to the delight of the guests who were leaning from their windows to applaud.”

    The Dude Wrangler

  • “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

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