stomp
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| 1. | stamp (defs. 1–3). |
| 2. | stamp (defs. 11, 12). |
| 3. | to dance the stomp. |
| 4. | stamp (def. 14). |
| 5. | a jazz composition, esp. in early jazz, marked by a driving rhythm and a fast tempo. |
| 6. | a dance to this music, usually marked by heavy stamping of the feet. |
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v. stomped, stomp·ing, stomps v. tr. To tread or trample heavily or violently on. v. intr. To tread or trample heavily or violently. n.
[Variant of stamp.] stomp'er n., stomp'ing·ly adv. Usage Note: Stomp and stamp are interchangeable in the sense "to trample" or "to tread on violently": stomped (or stamped) to death; stomping (or stamping) horses. Only stamp is used with out to mean "to eliminate": stamp out a fire; stamp out poverty. Stamp is also standard in the sense "to strike the ground with the foot, as in anger or frustration," [to bring the foot down quickly] as in He stamped his foot and began to cry. In an earlier survey the use of stomp in this example was rejected by a large majority of the Usage Panel. |
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stomp (v.)
1803, variant of stamp. Meaning "lively social dance" is recorded from 1912 in jazz slang.
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noun | |
| 1. | a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step |
verb | |
| 1. | walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" |
| WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University. |
stomp [stomp] verb
to stamp or tread heavily
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Stomp
Stomp\, v. i. [See Stamp.] To stamp with the foot. [Colloq.] "In gallant procession, the priests mean to stomp." --R. Browning.| Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc. |
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