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whomp
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whomp  (hwmp, wmp) Informal
n.
A loud, heavy blow or thud.
v. whomped, whomp·ing, whomps
v.tr.
1. To hit or strike.
2. To defeat soundly; trounce: whomped the opposing team.
3. To prepare or make, especially with little effort. Often used with up: "Meanwhile, you whomp up yams and spuds and bake your pies" (Garrison Keillor).
v.intr.
To hit or strike with a whomp.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Verb1.whomp - hit with the hand
slap - hit with something flat, like a paddle or the open hand; "The impatient teacher slapped the student"; "a gunshot slapped him on the forehead"
2.whomp - beat overwhelmingly
beat, beat out, vanquish, trounce, crush, shell - come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game"
Translations
whomp (US inf)
vt (= hit)einschlagen auf (+acc); (= defeat)schlagen
nSchlag m


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I'm the anxious type and I didn't want to surround myself with lots of things that remind me that I could really get whomped by this thing.
beat(en) goes on: With the Lakers getting whomped by the Celtics in their failed quest for the championship, finally the Dodgers can grab the L.
Oh sure, the Americans whomped poor little Granada to prevent its socialist hordes from attacking America, and they performed splendidly in Panama against their former partner Noriega (although the estimated three thousand killed would not think so).
 
 
 
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