Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A rhythmic sound made by a tuba or other brass instrument.
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- noun Alternative form of
oom-pah . - verb transitive To produce an
oom-pah sound.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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What makes the zither truly German is the "oompah" produced by all of those strings.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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Katherine Bodenbender, another member of the ensemble, says that convincing the fingers of the right hand to play that "oompah" while the right thumb is plucking out the melody takes a little practice.
NPR Topics: News 2009
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I'd even like to have a kind of oompah-music thingy on one of Ionic Vision's releases ... (laughs) Hey: It's all about that simple thing called "music"!
Side-Line news feed 2008
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In Detroit's Greektown, you can yell "oompah" to saganaki -- cheese grilled in brandy and lit on fire!
April Rudin: This Is My Detroit: What the Motor City Means to Me April Rudin 2011
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In Detroit's Greektown, you can yell "oompah" to saganaki -- cheese grilled in brandy and lit on fire!
April Rudin: This Is My Detroit: What the Motor City Means to Me April Rudin 2011
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They will be frying fish in barrels of oil on the street, and setting off firecrackers, and dancing to an oompah band.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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It's a typically riotous mix of oompah music-hall cavortings, slurred-pitch Middle Eastern rhapsodising, luxuriously sensuous clarinet love-songs, and stormy collective blasts reminiscent of the 1960s John Coltrane quartet.
Gilad Atzmon Orient House Ensemble: The Tide Has Changed John Fordham 2010
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In Detroit's Greektown, you can yell "oompah" to saganaki -- cheese grilled in brandy and lit on fire!
April Rudin: This Is My Detroit: What the Motor City Means to Me April Rudin 2011
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The mention of Bavaria may still conjure up images of rowdy beer halls, oompah bands and red-cheeked folk in dirndl and lederhosen, but the state capital, Munich, is revamping itself as Germany's answer to silicon valley.
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They will be frying fish in barrels of oil on the street, and setting off firecrackers, and dancing to an oompah band.
Deadly Julie Chibbaro 2011
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