stomp

1803, variant of stamp. Compare German stampfen (“to stomp”). More at stamp.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /stɒmp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /stɑmp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒmp

stomp (third-person singular simple present stomps, present participle stomping, simple past and past participle stomped)

1. (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
   • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, page 182:

     The customer stomps toward the double doors, drawn in by hypnotic organ strains.

   • 2000, Mark Topham, Karl Twigg, Rita Campbell, “Stomp”, performed by Steps:

     Everybody clap your hands
     Get up and dance
     We're gonna stomp all night now
     Everybody move your feet
     Get up and feel the beat
     We're gonna stomp all night now

2. (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
3. (transitive, slang) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.
4. (transitive, gaming) To completely defeat or overwhelm an enemy, to win by a large lead over someone
5. (transitive) To crush grapes with one's feet to make wine

   Synonym: tread

• (to severely beat someone): crush

stomp (plural stomps)

1. A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp.

   She obliterated the cockroach with one stomp.

2. Any of various dances incorporating repeated heavy, rhythmic steps.
   • 1962, “Let's Dance”, Jim Lee (lyrics), performed by Chris Montez:

     Well, let's dance, well let's dance.
     We'll do the twist, the stomp, the mashed potato too
     Any old dance that you want to do
     But let's dance.

3. A style of jazz music for stomp dances of the early twentieth century.
4. A piece of music in this style.

   King Porter Stomp.

5. (dated) A social gathering where dancing is the main activity; a dance.

   We’re going to a stomp tonight.

From Middle Dutch stompe, from Old Dutch *stump, from Proto-Germanic *stumpaz (“stump”). Cognate to German stumpf.

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• Rhymes: -ɔmp
• IPA^(key): /stɔmp/

stomp (comparative stomper, superlative stompst)

1. blunt, not sharp

   Synonym: bot

   Antonyms: scherp, puntig, spits

   Met zo’n stomp potlood kun je toch niet tekenen!

   You can’t draw with such a blunt pencil!

2. (mathematics, of an angle) having over 90 degrees

   Dit is een stompe hoek.

   This is a blunt angle.

• → Papiamentu: stòmpi, stompi

stomp m (plural stompen, diminutive stompje n)

1. stump (short, formless, protruding object)

   Er bleef na de amputatie niet meer dan een stompje van zijn vinger over.

   After the amputation, no more than a stump of his finger was left.

2. blow (painful hit with the fist or the elbow)

   Je zou hem een stomp geven! ― You’d give him a blow!

• (stump): knobbel
• (blow): slag, klop, mep, mot

• (antonym(s) of “stump”): pin, spits
• (antonym(s) of “blow”): (with the foot) schop, (tender) streling, aai

• Negerhollands: stomp, stompie
• → French: estompe
  • → German: Estompe
• → Sranan Tongo: tompu
  • → Saramaccan: tómpi

stomp

1. inflection of stompen:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
   3. imperative