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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
stomp
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
old stomping ground
▪ I guess he’ll try to reach his old stomping ground to drum up support.
stomping ground
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
off
▪ He compromised by stomping off to the police boat, and allowing whoever so willed to follow.
▪ But he stomps off to have a think now and then.
out
▪ But on waking she pushed these resolutely aside and stomped out to do her good deeds.
▪ The two of them shouted at each other and until Daley stomped out, the secretaries feared they would come to blows.
▪ Is Wilko going to stomp out?
▪ He goes along stomping out dandelions.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
sb's stomping ground
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ In the middle of the show, the lead singer stomped off the stage.
▪ Kevin looked furious as he stomped into his office. "What the hell is going on here?" he yelled.
▪ My sister stomped out of the house, slamming the door behind her.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Gordon notices a tangle of walkers stomping towards us.
▪ He glared at Yanto with genuine dislike as he stomped through the front porch of the pub.
▪ I tossed a bar of soap on the floor and he stomped on it, driving it across the tiles.
▪ Tony stomped past, stopped and peered into the chasm, setting up a shot.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Stomp

Stomp \Stomp\, v. i. [See Stamp.] To stamp with the foot. [Colloq.] ``In gallant procession, the priests mean to stomp.''
--R. Browning.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
stomp

1803, variant of stamp. Related: Stomped; stomping. Noun meaning "lively social dance" is recorded from 1912 in jazz slang.

Wiktionary
stomp

n. 1 A dance having a heavy, rhythmic step. 2 The jazz music for this dance. vb. 1 (context ambitransitive English) To trample heavily. 2 (context transitive slang English) To severely beat someone physically or figuratively.

WordNet
stomp
  1. n. a dance involving a rhythmical stamping step

  2. v. walk heavily; "The men stomped through the snow in their heavy boots" [syn: stamp, stump]

Wikipedia
Stomp (strike)

A stomp (also referred to as a stamp) is a downwards strike with the heel of the foot from the stand-up position, and is usually directed at the head or body of a downed opponent. A stomp similar to an axe kick is referred to as an axe stomp, while a particularly powerful jumping stomp with both heels is called a bronco kick, and a stomp from the clinch directed at the opponent's foot is called a foot stomp or a heel stomp.

Stomp

Stomp may refer to:

  • Stomp (strike), a downwards kick using the heel
Stomp (Steps song)

"Stomp" is a song by Steps, released as a single, which became the group's second and last single to hit No. 1 on the UK Singles Chart. Debuting at No. 1 in October 2000 and spending 11 weeks on the UK chart, this track was later released in Australia, Japan, and Europe. The song features (with minor alterations in key and modulation) an orchestral riff from " Everybody Dance", released by Chic in 1978. Claire, Faye, Lisa and H sing lead vocals.

Stomp (theatrical show)

Stomp is a percussion group, originating in Brighton, UK that uses the body and ordinary objects to create a physical theatre performance.

Stomp (God's Property song)

"Stomp" is a 1996 song by gospel group God's Property featuring Salt-N-Pepa rapper Cheryl James and Christian urban singer Kirk Franklin. It was one of the most successful gospel songs of the 1990s, charting on Billboard's mainstream R&B airplay list in 1997. The song samples " One Nation Under a Groove" by Funkadelic.

Stomp (album)

Stomp, along with Stroll, are the eighth and ninth studio albums by the Boston ska punk band Big D and the Kids Table, released on June 11, 2013 by Strictly Rude Records.

Dedicated to the memory of Anthony Spaulding, an Allston resident, sound engineering student, and Big D fan who was murdered on January 1, 2013.

Usage examples of "stomp".

He has already stamped his personality on the batch, bawling out one guy for not doing his job, while on another occasion, on sentry duty, he was conversing with Coyle sotto voce when Robinson stomped up ignoring all the rules on keeping quiet at night so Tanner backhanded him in the face without even looking like Baloo unleashing a heavy paw.

Shabazz and Big Mike were stomping on naming maps of Hell like madmen, Marlene was walking in a circle brandishing her stick.

The brawny one instantly ran down the thoroughfare, stomping and making his presence known.

After getting his leg broken and his body stomped by an angry bronc, he decided it was time for a visit.

Those bronc riders are just hoping to hang on for eight seconds without getting thrown and stomped on.

All week long SS bigwigs have been stomping through the puddles in the ice-cold raw cement structure, down in the enormous underground chambers and up above at the untried furnaces, their impatient brusque comments echoing to the splash and thump of boots.

With another expletive, this one directed at the smirking toad at her side, she stomped to the end of the dais and down the short set of stairs.

But before he could reply, Maire was stomping off, back toward her castle.

Somewhere among the masking trunks of the tree-lined river bank, there was the idle stomp of a hoof, followed by a rolling, outblown breath.

I told him he seemed to be getting one hell of a long way from stomping or not stomping a little brown insect, and he told me that the spider is not an insect at all but an eight-legged predacious arachnid of the order Araneae.

Every now and again a patrol of the scalies would stomp by, boots crashing in the confines of the corridors.

In panic, he had rushed for the kitchen area and had barely enough time to assume a disguise, secreted there, that Katsumata had given him as, a few metres away, masked by a hedge, the Sergeant shoved past the bowing doorman, kicked off his sandals and stomped onto the veranda of the main house.

Pleased by this image, Silvester had stomped out through the portico and lurched down the single step on to turf and soil.

Broach continued stomping on his cloak long after the smouldering patches had been extinguished.

He woke up blearily, got up, wandered blearily round his room, opened a window, saw a bulldozer, found his slippers, and stomped off to the bathroom to wash.