Noun the dish fell off the table and hit the hardwood floor with a whomp Verb the basketball team was whomped in the last game of the regular season and missed out on the playoffs

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Its taste crosses the nutty, caramelized purity of homemade ghee with the unmistakable whomp of pork. —Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024

The remaining words were: whoop, phony, chomp, ghoul, chock, and whomp. —Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023 Nearly every morning the whomp of Russian artillery shells fired from miles away, across the Dnipro River, shakes the city. —Jeffrey Gettleman Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022 Every few minutes, mortar shells landed nearby with a terrifying whomp. —Jeffrey Gettleman, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2022 Winning the turnover war, the unstoppable J.Chase freak show, D.J. Reader putting the whomp on Derrick Henry, E. McPherson topping himself seemingly weekly, Saint Joe blessing the proceedings with his presence. —Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Jan. 2022 Hunks of lardon bring a bacony whomp; they’re offset by a mulchy, acidic riff on salsa made with roasted broccoli. —Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 15 Oct. 2021 During this siege, several sturgeon in the 5-foot range jumped several times around the boat, landing with a giant whomp and whirl the size of a washtub. —Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 May 2020 With a Cougar helicopter whomp-whomping overhead, the commandos stormed up two flights of stairs, seized the bomb-making materials and captured the terrorist leaders. —Eric Schmitt, New York Times, 12 July 2019

Verb

The opening line has been bet down a point, owing to all the Lions’ injuries at all three defensive levels as well as recency bias from Thanksgiving when the Bears bumbled their way out of a potential upset in Motown and the Packers whomped the Dolphins. —Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024 The teams design flavorful fantastic creations, from edible spiders to a whomping willow tree. —Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024 There’s a clear upside to the Florida Panthers getting whomped Saturday night. —Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2024 The Goons whomped on a number of unsuspecting victims in mob attacks in Gilbert and nearby communities over the course of a year, in several cases rendering people unconscious or bloodied. —Abe Kwok, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 Former President Donald Trump is whomping Nikki Haley in her home state, according to the latest polls on the Republican opponents’ prospects in the South Carolina primary, scheduled for Feb. 24. —Richard Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024 As leader of the Conservative Party, Johnson won a whomping 80-seat majority in the House of Commons in 2019. —William Booth, Washington Post, 15 June 2023 Raymond taught the Phanatic what became his signature moves: how to whomp his paunch, how to suction a plunger to the head of a bald man, how to stand at a distance and land rings on the plunger. —New York Times, 6 Aug. 2021 The sarcastic, whomping Fountains Of Wayne and lithe and buzzy Tinted Windows were fundamentally power pop, while Ivy combined cool Eurolounge with sad hints of Burt Bacharach. —Marc Hirsh, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2020

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imitative

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1926, in the meaning defined above

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1942, in the meaning defined at intransitive sense

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