thump
About 0.78 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun A blow that produces a muffled sound.
- noun The sound of such a blow; a thud.
- noun Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.
Where the thump have you been?!
- noun Synonym of bump (“sudden movement of underground strata”).
- verb To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
- verb To cause to make a thumping sound.
The cat thumped its tail in irritation.
- verb To thud or pound.
- verb To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.
Similar words
thud beat clunk poke clump pound bang bump boom noise
Often followed by
of on and the as in that thump against
Word family
thumped thumper thumpers thumping thumps
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