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  • noun Plural form of yomp.
  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of yomp.

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Examples

  • David Shrigley's scowling animated hairy giant, naked but for his boots, yomps around the perimeter of the circle, scary and comic at the same time.

    A Curtain of Light and Sound Paul Levy 2011

  • Winter: walks to the local park; yomps through Epping Forest in the low winter light.

    Archive 2009-01-01 The List Writer 2009

  • Winter: walks to the local park; yomps through Epping Forest in the low winter light.

    Where I was 2008 The List Writer 2009

  • They are fantastic for camping, for blackberrying, for throwing on after a swim, for yomps through the forest and for all those many English summer days that don't turn out to be quite as warm as you hoped.

    Plain sweatshirts made fancy The List Writer 2009

  • They are fantastic for camping, for blackberrying, for throwing on after a swim, for yomps through the forest and for all those many English summer days that don't turn out to be quite as warm as you hoped.

    Archive 2009-04-01 The List Writer 2009

  • The convention itself, held at the Cedar Court Hotel, was quite neatly laid out, with all the main rooms, all easily and quickly accessible, no expeditionary yomps down long, lonely corridors to reach a distant annexe.

    Eastercon 2009 Bradford: The Magical Bus Tour Con « INTERSTELLAR TACTICS 2009

  • I'm starting to think that the Royal Marines won't go to war unless they're told that there'll be lots of mud and long yomps to be had.

    Latest Articles 2009

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