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thumping

[ thuhm-ping ]

adjective

  1. of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
  2. strikingly great, immense, exceptional, or impressive; resounding:

    a thumping victory at the polls.



thumping

/ ˈθʌmpɪŋ /

adjective

  1. slang.
    prenominal huge or excessive

    a thumping loss



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Derived Forms

  • ˈthumpingly, adverb

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Other Words From

  • thumping·ly adverb

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Word History and Origins

Origin of thumping1

First recorded in 1570–80; thump + -ing 2

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Example Sentences

Bible-thumping Louisiana Sen. David Vitter was outed as a john for the “D.C. Madam” in 2007.

There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much.

I also wanted to ask you about the chest-thumping scene in The Wolf of Wall Street.

His “bible thumping” takes him away from Portland often, to cities as far as D.C. and New Orleans.

These day he engages the political world with tub-thumping opinion columns in the Spanish daily El Pais.

She paused for a fraction of a second, while his heart went thumping against his ribs.

Oh, the wildness of that sound—and the thumping of the heart of the hunter, and the breathless suspense, and the burning desire.

And my heart began thumping until I feared its beating would be audible at a distance.

But the least thinking of him sufficed to set her heart to thumping again; and so she shrunk from that train of thought.

The men were all at their dinner, when I heard the boat thumping under the main channels.

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