stomp

See also: Stomp

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /stɒmp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /stɑmp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɒmp

Verb

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

  1. (ambitransitive) To trample heavily.
    • 1992, Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, New York: Bantam Books, →ISBN, 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
    1. (transitive) To crush (grapes) with one's feet to make wine.
      Synonym: tread
  2. (transitive) To stamp (one’s foot or feet).
  3. (transitive, slang) To severely beat (someone) physically.
  4. (transitive, figurative) To thoroughly defeat (someone).
  5. (transitive, computing) To overwrite.
    The virus stomps the system DLL and replaces it with an infected version.
  6. (intransitive) To perform the stomp (dance).

Synonyms

  • (to severely beat someone): crush

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

stomp (countable and uncountable, plural stomps)

  1. (countable, informal) A deliberate heavy footfall; a stamp.
    She obliterated the cockroach with one stomp.
  2. Any of various dances incorporating repeated heavy, rhythmic steps.
    • 1957, “At The Hop”, Artie Singer, John Medora and David White (lyrics), performed by Danny & the Juniors:
      Well, you can rock it you can roll it
      Do the stomp and even stroll it, at the hop.
      When the record starts spinnin'
      You calypso and you chicken, at the hop.
    • 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. (uncountable) A style of jazz music for stomp dances of the early twentieth century.
  4. (countable) A piece of music in this style.
    King Porter Stomp
  5. (dated, countable, slang) A social gathering where dancing is the main activity; a dance.
    We’re going to a stomp tonight.

Derived terms

Translations

Dutch

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɔmp
  • IPA(key): /stɔmp/

Adjective

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.

Declension

Declension of stomp
uninflected stomp
inflected stompe
comparative stomper
positive comparative superlative
predicative/adverbial stomp stomper het stompst
het stompste
indefinite m./f. sing. stompe stompere stompste
n. sing. stomp stomper stompste
plural stompe stompere stompste
definite stompe stompere stompste
partitive stomps stompers —

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Afrikaans: stomp
  • → Papiamentu: stòmpi, stompi

Noun

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!

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Descendants

Verb

stomp

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