stomp
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4.8
- noun
- /stɑmp/
:
zapateado
- Montreal's Grown Folk trades its skip for a stomp and swaps in a chugging bassline in accompaniment.
- Stomp Dance
- foot stomps
- romp and stomp
Examples
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Again, I, uh... I wanna thank you for inviting me to your stomp.
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"Now I will show you a stomp step."
Fiction book (1997) -
"Oh, do the stomp, do the stomp."
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Then he did a stomp step, too.
Fiction book (1997) -
Let's get the rhythm of the stomp, stomp, stomp.
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We took them to see stomp off-Broadway.
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The audience knows the song; go into a primal foot stomp with it.
Fiction book (1991) -
Add to the American music list the sounds of gospel, polka, salsa, and stomp dances.
Academic text (2008) -
Three hearty stomps and the portal flew wide.
Fiction book (1993) -
During the festival, everyone joined in the dance known as the stomp to celebrate the music.
Synonyms
4
8.2
A lively traditional dance with heavy stamping done in wooden shoes
1
6.8
A traditional dance where people stamp loudly while wearing shoes with wooden soles
1
5.6
A dance done in shoes with wooden soles that uses heavy stamping steps
Compounds
- Offensive
A violent attack in which someone forces another person's head onto a curb and steps on it hard
How Energetic
Surface Forms
Etymology
Stomp comes from copying the heavy sound of feet, much like the common word stamp. A helpful way to remember the dance stomp is that it uses strong, rhythmic stamping steps, so the name is both the sound and the action.