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thump out

v. beat out a rhythm [syn: beat out, tap out]

Usage examples of "thump out".

She must have given them some signal I missed, for they began to thump out, not ill-assorted bangs, but a definite rhythm.

Because the holder of such a weapon had to be forever ready to use it instantly, or else to perish by it, this silent vault had become his last refuge from fear, where he caught uneasy naps on a cot beside the launching station and lived on coffee and hurried sandwiches and waited for the teleprinters to thump out orders to strike.

The 'professor' at the piano would thump out an Oriental theme from Chu Chin Chow and the curtain would rise to reveal Abdullah, bathed in whatever passed for an eerie light in that particular house.

His heart started to thump out strange warnings as Peter watched Isadore Goldman's expensive lackey walk outside the big stucco house.

Their unsmiling countenances shoved him with a thump out of Sylvia’.