thump

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A blow that produces a muffled sound.

   • ... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.
   • The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.
2. 2

   The sound of such a blow

   The sound of such a blow; a thud.

3. 3

   Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

   • Where the thump have you been?!
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   1. 4

      Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).

   2. 5

      To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.

      • These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.
      • Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
   3. 6

      To cause to make a thumping sound.

      • The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
   4. 7

      To thud or pound.

   5. 8

      To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

      • Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
   6. 9

      (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.

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