Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Informal Outstanding in size, degree, or quality: a thumping success; a thumping party.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Unusually large or heavy; big.
Wiktionary
- adj. informal Exceptional in some degree.
- n. A dull, heavy sound.
- n. sports A heavy defeat
- v. present participle of thump.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. colloq. Heavy; large.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. (used informally) very large
- n. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
Examples
“And this is what you call a thumping, 65 percent to 28 percent.”
“It wasn't until after the president felt what he called the thumping of the midterm election defeats that he announced he had changed his mind.”
“But that was before the president's party got what he called a thumping in the midterm elections, losing their majority in the House, and possibly the Senate.”
“And that's right, this is the president's first test on the international stage since his party received what he called a thumping in last week's midterm elections.”
“There is fome - thing very remarkable in what we call their thumping, which they do with their wings, by clapping theni againft their fides, as the hunters fay.”
Internet Archive: Essays Upon Natural History, and Other Miscellaneous Subjects,
“At two o'clock the music and voices and thumping from the other room stopped, and I thought it was high time to go home, but when I went out there, trailing the blanket behind me, I found them all passed out: Louise face down on the Twister mat, a snoring Ted mountain near the fireplace, my parents spooning together in a corner like Pompeii people.”
“Nelson's current chest thumping is his subcommittee being a pain in the ...”
“So when he stepped out on stage, with U2's "City of Blinding Lights" thumping from the loudspeakers, Obama joined hands with Reid.”
The Washington Post: Obama stumps in Las Vegas to bail out Harry Reid
“Years ago, in a beautiful campground in Canada, we were awakened by booming music thumping from a stereo as some local began his drunken celebration of Canada Day at 6am.”
“But on past performance we can expect a lot of chest thumping from the GZG and from the Americans.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘thumping’.
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Against Nature
Inspired by the creepy decadence of Against Nature by Joris-Karl Huysmans.
katzenklavier, pasilalinic-sympa..., the jewel-encrust..., bird's nest soup, ghost net, bottom trawling, coal industry, cat juggling, rattlesnake roundup, fishing, dancing bear, defoliant and 91 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Swine
For more aporkalyptic fun, see madmouth's Everything's better with a pig in it.
For "references to the Dursleys in Wizard People, Dear Reader, Brad Neely's cosmos-shattering voiceover ...swine, pig, hog, boar, pork, pork bellies, hog cholera, swineherd, pigsty, swine flu, oink, pig in a blanket and 188 more...
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Other duties as assigned.
Tasks which probably won't appear on your job description, but which might still be required of you.
making coffee, locking the door, unlocking the door, color coding, making copies, cubicle decorating, bringing treats f..., explaining the me..., putting things in..., dusting, watering plants, digging through t... and 30 more...
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Probe~ation
An obnoxious and ridiculous madlib list where verbish '-ing' words fill in the blank wherein the blank is a call for a beating.
For example:
"You're ________in' for a brus...searching, looking, hunting, seeking, questing, exploring, asking, inquiring, snooping, poking, probing, scouting and 262 more...
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The Shambles
From the American Heritage Dictionary:
"A place or situation referred to as a shambles is usually a mess, but it is no longer always the bloody mess it once was. The history of the wo...rendering, packing plant, meat, hard hat, tallow, greaves, captive bolt pistol, pig scalder, scalding house, boxed beef, oleochemicals, blood meal and 42 more...
Tweets
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ruzuzu "As in any kind of factory, uniformity is essential. Piglets that don't grow fast enough--the runts--are a drain on resources and so have no place on the farm. Picked up by their hind legs, they are swung and then bashed headfirst onto the concrete floor. This common practice is called 'thumping.' 'We've thumped as many as 120 in one day,' said a worker from a Missouri farm."
--Jonathan Safran Foer, in his book Eating Animals May 1, 2010