Thumping

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thump \Thump\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Thumped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Thumping}.]
     To strike or beat with something thick or heavy, or so as to
     cause a dull sound.
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           These bastard Bretons; whom our hathers
           Have in their own land beaten, bobbed, and thumped.
                                                    --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Thumping \Thump"ing\, a.
     Heavy; large. [Colloq.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  thumping
       adj : (used informally) very large; "a thumping loss" [syn: {humongous},
              {banging}, {whopping}, {walloping}]
       n : a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)
           [syn: {thump}, {clump}, {clunk}, {thud}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  82 Moby Thesaurus words for "thumping":
     awful, banging, barrage, beat, beating, behemoth, bumping,
     clicking, colossal, complete, deadly, dreadful, drum, drum music,
     drumbeat, drumfire, drumming, elephantine, enormous, fearful,
     flutter, fluttering, frightful, gargantuan, gigantic, great,
     horrible, howling, huge, immense, jumbo, mammoth, massive,
     monumental, palpitant, palpitation, paradiddle, patter, perfect,
     pitapat, pitter-patter, pound, pounding, pulsation, rat-a-tat,
     rat-tat, rat-tat-tat, rataplan, rattattoo, roll, rousing,
     rub-a-dub, ruff, ruffle, slapping, spanking, spatter, spattering,
     splutter, spluttering, sputter, sputtering, staccato, stupendous,
     tat-tat, tattoo, terrible, terrific, throb, throbbing, thrum,
     thrumming, thundering, ticking, titanic, tom-tom, unmitigated,
     utter, walloping, whacking, whaling, whopping