tromp

See also: Tromp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɹɒmp/

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Etymology 1

1892, variant of tramp.

Verb

tromp (third-person singular simple present tromps, present participle tromping, simple past and past participle tromped)

1. (chiefly US, transitive, intransitive) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

   Synonyms: march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample

   Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.

   The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.

   • 1988, David Quammen, The Flight of the Iguana:

     He lifted one foot and set it down again, whammo, but Ed was so engrossed in Pynchon's novel that all he recalls is tromping the scorpion to death with his stung foot, then quickly fetching a bucket of ice water, jamming the foot into it, and continuing to read.

   • 2014, Elizabeth Kolbert, chapter 8, in The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, Henry Holt and Company:

     Six groups of cocaleros had tromped through the campsite overnight.

   • 2019 December 10, Yacht Club Games, "Story" (Black Knight), in Shovel Knight Showdown (version 4.1), Nintendo Switch, scene: ending:

     BLACK KNIGHT TROMPED MOODILY THROUGH THE PLAINS. JUSTICE WOULD PREVAIL, IN THE END. AT LEAST HE'D ESCAPED THE MIRROR OF FATE.

2. (informal) To utterly defeat an opponent.

   Synonyms: clobber, decimate, rout, trounce, whip

   The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.

Etymology 2

French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.

Alternative forms

• trombe, trompe

Noun

tromp (plural tromps)

1. A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

Icelandic

Etymology

From English trump.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtʰrɔm̥p/

  Rhymes: -ɔm̥p

Noun

tromp n (genitive singular tromps, nominative plural tromp)

1. (card games) trump

Middle English

Noun

tromp

1. Alternative form of trumpe