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单词 oompah
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Definition of oompah in English:

oompah

(also oompah-pah)
noun ˈuːmpɑː
mass nouninformal
  • The rhythmical sound of deep-toned brass instruments in a band.

    as modifier beer gardens from which oompah music thumped resoundingly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I play the bass line so if I wasn't able to go then the Great Escape would have sounded a bit odd without the oompah in the background.
    • I can't speak German, but I gave the line a bit of Teutonic oompah and it sounded kind of right.
    • During the day when your head stops spinning longer enough for a memory to form in your head you may hear the oompah band playing the mooloo song.
    • ‘What you must remember,’ the driver says, with added oompah, ‘is that what you're seeing in Berlin is a moment in a process.’
    • In the ground-breaking ensemble pieces 1898 and Kantrimiusik, familiar scales and arpeggios are combined with oompah rhythms and the emancipation of the consonance was complete.
    • Almost immediately following the vintage Universal logo (nice touch) and subsequent verbal recap of the zombie world situation, we are greeted with a macabre, hilarious off-key (to say the least) undead oompah band.
    • Twelve hours of enforced exposure to a traditional, lederhosen clad oompah band ought to set them back on the straight and narrow.
    • In Town Hall Square there will be a dramatic feel to things, with performances from Keighley Amateurs and HYT, plus music from a Bavarian oompah band.
    • How I envy my Other Half, who can not only boast a fine whistling technique, but who can summon up a veritable oompah band whenever he's got a tune on the brain.
    • The pair of movements might be thought of as urban and agrarian respectively, the scherzo being comic and a bit grotesque, apposite to city-slickers and clowns, with march rhythms and oompah basses redolent of music-hall.
    • You leave Germany, enter Austria and before you can say oompah band are into Switzerland.
    • We strolled down Broadway - alive with shoppers and the thumping bass oompah of norteno music - before reaching the modern face of downtown, Bunker Hill.
    • They joined some local bands, including the Clay County Community Band, and also are members of a small band they call the Umpa Band, umpa being their whimsical spelling of the tuba's characteristic oompah sound.
    • Elsewhere on The Grove an oompah band and tombola stall made full use of the new bandstand.
    • Southampton's city centre could echo to the sounds of oompah bands and smell of sizzling bratwurst and schnitzels this Christmas.
    • Even the music was quiet, and was international popular music, with no hint of an oompah in earshot.
    • I find that German oompah music usually hits the spot.
    • Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
    • She was accompanied by a band that played oompah music, on a tiny stage, with the smell of fried potatoes wafting in from the kitchen.
    • A German oompah band will perform there tonight and tomorrow.
verboompahed, oompahing, oompahs ˈuːmpɑː
[no object]informal
  • Make an ‘oompah’

    the military band oompahed from the terrace
    Example sentencesExamples
    • At first it sounds like a silly song; it oompahs along like a jittery ‘Li'l Rascals’ tune, but modern ears don't easily hear everything that's going on.
    • There's this one lone bass oompahing up and down the square, clowning around like we're some sort of marching band instead of the be-all and end-all of big parades and he slips in the elephant dung.
    • ‘Very good value,’ she oompahs, ‘very beautiful.’

Origin

Late 19th century: imitative.

 
 

Definition of oompah in US English:

oompah

(also oompah-pah)
noun
informal
  • Used to refer to the rhythmical sound of deep-toned brass instruments in a band.

    as modifier beer gardens from which oompah music thumped resoundingly
    Example sentencesExamples
    • A German oompah band will perform there tonight and tomorrow.
    • Elsewhere on The Grove an oompah band and tombola stall made full use of the new bandstand.
    • You leave Germany, enter Austria and before you can say oompah band are into Switzerland.
    • The pair of movements might be thought of as urban and agrarian respectively, the scherzo being comic and a bit grotesque, apposite to city-slickers and clowns, with march rhythms and oompah basses redolent of music-hall.
    • She was accompanied by a band that played oompah music, on a tiny stage, with the smell of fried potatoes wafting in from the kitchen.
    • Almost immediately following the vintage Universal logo (nice touch) and subsequent verbal recap of the zombie world situation, we are greeted with a macabre, hilarious off-key (to say the least) undead oompah band.
    • I find that German oompah music usually hits the spot.
    • I play the bass line so if I wasn't able to go then the Great Escape would have sounded a bit odd without the oompah in the background.
    • Southampton's city centre could echo to the sounds of oompah bands and smell of sizzling bratwurst and schnitzels this Christmas.
    • Over the course of 15 tracks, they gently shift from dark, carnival oompah to breathy, folky ballads to sweeping, expansive pop and old-timey backwoods country.
    • In Town Hall Square there will be a dramatic feel to things, with performances from Keighley Amateurs and HYT, plus music from a Bavarian oompah band.
    • During the day when your head stops spinning longer enough for a memory to form in your head you may hear the oompah band playing the mooloo song.
    • Twelve hours of enforced exposure to a traditional, lederhosen clad oompah band ought to set them back on the straight and narrow.
    • They joined some local bands, including the Clay County Community Band, and also are members of a small band they call the Umpa Band, umpa being their whimsical spelling of the tuba's characteristic oompah sound.
    • In the ground-breaking ensemble pieces 1898 and Kantrimiusik, familiar scales and arpeggios are combined with oompah rhythms and the emancipation of the consonance was complete.
    • We strolled down Broadway - alive with shoppers and the thumping bass oompah of norteno music - before reaching the modern face of downtown, Bunker Hill.
    • I can't speak German, but I gave the line a bit of Teutonic oompah and it sounded kind of right.
    • ‘What you must remember,’ the driver says, with added oompah, ‘is that what you're seeing in Berlin is a moment in a process.’
    • Even the music was quiet, and was international popular music, with no hint of an oompah in earshot.
    • How I envy my Other Half, who can not only boast a fine whistling technique, but who can summon up a veritable oompah band whenever he's got a tune on the brain.
verb
[no object]informal
  • Make an ‘oompah’

    the military band oompahed from the terrace
    Example sentencesExamples
    • There's this one lone bass oompahing up and down the square, clowning around like we're some sort of marching band instead of the be-all and end-all of big parades and he slips in the elephant dung.
    • At first it sounds like a silly song; it oompahs along like a jittery ‘Li'l Rascals’ tune, but modern ears don't easily hear everything that's going on.
    • ‘Very good value,’ she oompahs, ‘very beautiful.’

Origin

Late 19th century: imitative.

 
 
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