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  • Seems like all the bars here play that "thumpa thumpa" music and are filled with greasy-haired dudes in black shirts.

    Going Out Guide: taking your questions 2010

  • Right now he's running back and forth in front of us, back and forth, thumpa thumpa thumpa.

    Life at the Allen Homestead roverthedog 2008

  • On the other hand, the ones who play guitars to a background of pre-recorded thumpa-thumpa music, or try to sound like Bob Dylan, can be ghastly.

    Simon Hoggart's week: Creepy and silly, but Mandelson is never boring 2010

  • Wouldn't it be wonderful to drive up alongside a pimplyfaced kid slouched in the seat of one of those cars that make thumpa thumpa sounds from its powerful bass speakers and give him a blast from these monsters?

    Boing Boing: October 16, 2005 - October 22, 2005 Archives 2005

  • For inspiration, he would leap up from his desk, strum a few ka-thumpa-thumpas and go back to work.

    Types I have known, by John Sparey: Jack and Amby Steve Hulett 2006

  • Not the cadent rattle of the thin cylindrical drums the Trivigauntis used, but the steady _thumpa-thumpa-thump_ of Vironese war drums, drums that suggested the palaestra's big copper stew-pot whenever she saw them, war drums beating out the quickstep used to draw up troops in order of battle.

    Exodus From The Long Sun Wolfe, Gene 1996

  • She waded into the thumpa-thumpa of a rap CD and inhaled a puff of cigarette smoke.

    Courting Trouble Scottoline, Lisa 1993

  • He'll play just about any iPod (though, have fun trying to hook up a shuffle to this thing), blasts 15-watts through his eye shaped speakers, and floats on the 9-watt thumpa-thumpas coming from his subwoofer, oh, and he also totally looks suspiciously like Blinky, the red ghost from

    GayGamer.net 2010

  • Listen to my heart going thumpa-thumpa-thumpa in fear!

    LewRockwell.com 2010

  • The unit still goes thumpa thump as if it is working, but no cubes.

    RutlandHerald.com 2010

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