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- verb Present participle of
oompah .
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Examples
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I heard polka music oompahing cheerfully through the hall as I approached the room.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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I heard polka music oompahing cheerfully through the hall as I approached the room.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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After a few rousing choruses of that Sunday afternoon at Light Opera Works, where Roger L. Bingaman's lively orchestra was oompahing on all cylinders, I found myself wondering where one might find an Oktoberfest deep in the dog days of August.
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"Beautiful Women With Shining Black Hair," on the other hand, sounds like a danse macabre set in an infernal beer hall, complete with oompahing horns, and "The Bell Ringer," whose lyrics were inspired by Herzog's
Chicago Reader 2010
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Leigh will probably be oompahing at Mary, but it’s about time some Yanks got serious.
Camp Cromwell 03/03/2005 Nick 2005
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Leigh will probably be oompahing at Mary, but it’s about time some Yanks got serious.
Archive 2005-03-01 Nick 2005
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