whomp
/wɒmp
/North American informal
verb [with object]
1Strike heavily; thump: the two men slugged and whomped each other...
- I opt to say nothing and assume that by whomping you over the head with a garbage-can lid, I'm really expressing everything that needs to be said.
- Their target market consists of people who have recently been whomped in the head and who are thus willing to spend $3 on a can of soda.
- It can be a bit hard to see who's being whomped by the Bat.
1.1Defeat decisively: that was our last fight and I whomped him good...
- Whereas in Texas, he is whomping Al Gore.
- Thomas Jefferson won all but 14 electoral votes in 1804 and Teddy Roosevelt whomped the hapless Alton Parker in 1904.
- Ten days later, Sam Houston's army caught up with Santa Anna and whomped him at the Battle of San Jacinto.
noun
A dull, heavy sound: the whomp of igniting gasoline...
- Then, with a crack and a deafening whomp, the ground jumps.
- Every single one is simply a scurrying shadow or quick image of a ghost accompanied by a loud whomp of scare noise from the orchestra.
- You can hear the whomp every time the ball flies past the batter and lands in the catcher's mitt.
Phrasal verbs
whomp something up
Origin
1920s: imitative.
Rhymes
- pet therapy
- petti
- pettibockers
- pettichaps
- petticoat
- petticoat breeches
- petticoat discipline
- petticoated
- petticoat government
- petticoating
- Petticoat Lane
- petticoat maker
- petticoat tail
- pettifog
- pettifogger
- pettifoggery
- pettifogging
- pettigree
- pettigrue
- pettily
- pettiness
- petting party
- petting zoo
- pettish
- pettishly