Definition of "thump"

thump

/θʌmp/

noun
plural thumps
1. A blow that produces a muffled sound.
  Quotations
  ... and so the universal thump is passed round, and all hands should rub each other’s shoulder-blades, and be content.
  1851, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chapter 1
  The watchman gave so very great a thump at my door last night, that I awakened at the knock.
  1710 January 4 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Saturday, December 24, 1709”, in The Tatler, number 111; republished in [Richard Steele], editor, The Tatler, […], London stereotype edition, volume II, London: I. Walker and Co.; […], 1822
2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
3. (dated, colloquial, euphemistic) Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.
verb
third-person singular simple present thumps, present participle thumping, simple past and past participle thumped
1. (transitive, chiefly UK) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
  Quotations
  These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.
  c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene iii]
  Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
  2011 January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, “Leeds 1-3 Arsenal”, in BBC
2. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.
3. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
4. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
  Quotations
  Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
  2013 June 29, “Travels and travails”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8842, page 55

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