whomp
English
Etymology
Perhaps a variant of whip, similar to whup.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ʍɒmp/, /wɒmp/
- (US) IPA(key): /ʍɑmp/, /wɑmp/
Audio (General Australian): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒmp
Verb
whomp (third-person singular simple present whomps, present participle whomping, simple past and past participle whomped)
- (slang, transitive) To hit extremely hard. [from mid-20th c.]
- If you don’t cut that out, I’m going to whomp you so hard your head will spin!
- 1998 March 17, “[The Editorial Page] All Celts now”, in Ottawa Citizen, Ottawa, Ont.: Southam Inc., page A14, column 2:
- Other sources are less committal, saying only that Celts were (a) the ancient warrior people who whomped the Picts, etc., […]
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