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plural oompahs
Alternative spelling of oom-pah examples
third-person singular simple present oompahs, present participle oompahing, simple past and past participle oompahed
(transitive) To produce an oom-pah sound. quotations examples
...the house filled with the sounds of Mario Lanza, or oompahing tubas […]
2005, Jeannette Walls, The glass castle
Beer foamed; champagne bottles stood at attention in silver buckets; military brass oompahed over the hill and the summer air grew heavy with jubilation […]
1995, Simon Schama, Landscape and memory