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yomp [jɒmp]
vb
(intr) to walk or trek laboriously, esp heavily laden and over difficult terrain
[military slang, of uncertain origin]
Translations
yomp
vi (Mil sl) → sich schleppen
yomp [jɒmp] vi (Brit) (Mil) (fam) → percorrere un terreno accidentato


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I do, however, walk a few yards behind when she yomps up the high street in them.
French Laughter: Literary Humour from Diderot to Tournier , by Walter Redfern (OUP, £25) Lest you think that "French laughter" denotes a specific kind of Parisian sneer-chuckle, rest assured that Redfern's book yomps joyously through many kinds of comedy, from the philosophical dramedy of Jacques the Fatalist, to the humorously terrifying pedantry of Huysmans, Céline's laughter in the dark and Sartre's satiric gift, not often given its due.
He has a vivid eye for detail but can dismiss characters a little too easily in a tale that yomps through the bushand across countries leaving twitching bodies in its wake.
 
 
 
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