Definition of "lamp"

lamp

/læmp/

noun
plural lamps
1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.
verb
third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped
1. (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
  Quotations
  All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face.
  2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337
2. (UK, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
3. (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
  Quotations
  I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.
  1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back‎, performed by Public Enemy
4. To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.