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▪ I. stomp, v.1
Used by Browning (to obtain a rime) for stump or stamp.
1845Browning Englishm. Italy 272 And then will the flaxen-wigged Image Be carried in pomp Thro' the plain, while in gallant procession The priests mean to stomp.
▪ II. stomp, v.2 Chiefly U.S. (orig. dial.).|stɒmp|
[Var. stamp v. in senses of branch II.]
1. a. intr. = stamp v. 2 a. Also fig.
1803J. Davis Trav. U.S.A. x. 382 He began to stomp upon me, and ax if I had yet got enough. 1936C. Carmer Listen for Lonesome Drum 74, I stomped on his hand. 1961C. McCullers Clock without Hands vii. 148 He took down his records of German lieder.. and stomped on them, stomping with such despair and fury that not a groove of the records remained unshattered. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 65 In the last piece Harry..is painted white by three brothers after they had considered stomping on him..for what he did. 1973Observer 25 Nov. 28/4 They stomped all over Newport County.., winning 3–1.
b. = stamp v. 2 b.
1914Dialect Notes IV. 156 Stomp, v.i., var. of stamp, to strike the foot forcibly and noisily downward. 1917Ibid. 400 Stomp.., tread heavily or noisily with one or more feet... ‘He stomped on the floor as hard as he could.’ 1928J. Peterkin Scarlet Sister Mary 147 Tell Doll not to stomp so hard. 1940Time 29 July 40 They banged, rattled, beat, blew, stomped. 1969New Scientist 17 July 119/2 The astronaut will be asked to stomp on the surface several times to produce observable seismic signals. 1982B. Chatwin On Black Hill xvi. 77 The bull bellowed; horses stomped in their stalls.
c. = stamp v. 2 e.
1919E. Pound Quia Pauper Amavi 18 He stomped into my bedroom. 1941Time 13 Oct. 15/3 Mr. Ford stomped out, grinding his teeth. 1953W. Burroughs Junkie (1972) ii. 23 Whitey was stomping up and down the length of the bar trying to promote some free drinks. 1956J. Masters Bugles & Tiger 87 Biniram unpacked my suitcase, threw my pyjamas on the bed, and stomped out. 1967G. Steiner Lang. & Silence 138 He stomps like a boisterous giant through a literature often marked by slim volumes of whispered lyricism. 1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 89 He came stomping along the edge—for a moment I thought he was going to dive in after me, boots and all! 1981‘J. Gash’ Vatican Rip vii. 61 I'd never seen people move so fast... Everybody simply stomped hurriedly past.
2. a. trans. = stamp v. 3 a. Also fig.
1916in H. Wentworth Amer. Dial. Dict. (1944) 593/1 Before you stomp all that snow off. 1941H. Skidmore Hawk's Nest 2 [She] stomped the red clay from her feet. 1954Ladies' Home Jrnl. Oct. 116/3 Any passerby could look through the glass and see if the teacher inside were perhaps being pinned to the wall or stomped into the floor. 1971B. Patten Irrelevant Song 40, I will make all that is possible step out of time To a land of giant hurrays! where the happy monsters dance And stomp darkness down. 1981M. C. Smith Gorky Park i. iii. 45 The host's carload entered, stomping snow off their boots.
b. to stomp one's feet. Cf. stamp v. 3 c.
c1927–34J. Toomer in Black Scholar (1971) Jan. 8, I teased the girls. I sent notes. I stomped my feet and made strange noises. 1941Sat. Even. Post 10 May 113/2 Fern stomped feet against the floor. 1955Birmingham (Alabama) News 14 July 55/2 She stomped her feet in the manner in which she testified she saw Colin walking toward the car to take the battery. 1972Jazz & Blues Nov. 5/1 They jitterbugged to ‘One O'Clock Jump’ and stomped their feet to ‘Maple Leaf Rag’.
c. To stamp or trample on (a person, etc.). Also transf.
1934C. Carmer Stars fell on Alabama 165, I fixes to stomp him to death... There I was stompin' jest like I'd stomped a thousand coons. 1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 16 May 28 The Indians then began a victory dance. Before the dance was over..the..British fliers were stomping the ground in customary style. 1959N. Mailer Advts. for Myself (1961) 201, I never could stomach the relish with which soldiers would describe how they had stomped some faggot in a bar. 1967Daily Progress (Charlottesville, Va.) 1 May c2/6 Jerry got into an argument with his mother and his father shouted: ‘I'm gonna stomp you!’ 1975D. Lodge Changing Places ii. 86 He saw Carol jumping up and down on the mountainous figure of the black wrestler, ‘Stomp me baby, stomp me,’ he moaned.
d. With out. = stamp v. 3 d. Chiefly transf.
1936Sun (Baltimore) 4 Dec. 12/3 We are against crime. Crime should be ‘stomped’ out. 1940W. Faulkner Hamlet i. iii. 82 That first Snopes will turn around and stomp the fire out. 1941Time 29 Dec. 22/1 Castillo would use his new powers..to stomp out Nazi propaganda agents. 1976Science 10 Sept. 982/1 Despite government efforts to stomp it out..the banned anticancer drug Laetrile has a steady..market..in the United States.
e. To beat out (a rhythm) with one's foot.
1973Black World Mar. 61/2 Arms open wide, he stomped out a savage drum beat: ‘Kill! kill! kill! kill!’
f. To tramp or trudge between (a series of places).
1977‘J. le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy xv. 331 He was reduced to stomping the air-freight agencies, asking about a firm called Indocharter.
3. Chiefly Jazz.
a. trans. To perform (a dance) to a lively, stamping rhythm.
1926B. Krenz (song-title) Stomp your stuff. 1926in R. S. Gold Jazz Lexicon (1964) 297 When they start dancin'—Stompin and prancin'—the dance called the sugar foot stomp. 1978Amer. Poetry Rev. July/Aug. 45/2 ‘Stomping the blues’ is also dancing with the get down style of dance-beat-oriented people.
b. With off. To beat (a tempo) with one's foot as a signal to a jazz band to start to play; also, to signal to (a band) in this way. Also absol. or intr.
1925in R. S. Gold Jazz Lexicon (1964) 298 (tune-title) Stomp off, let's go. 1960H. O. Brunn Story Orig. Dixieland Jazz Band vi. 68 For this reason LaRocca was not allowed to ‘stomp off’ his band in the usual fashion. 1961Artesian Winter 33 They stomped off the solid beat. 1970W. Apel Harvard Dict. Mus. (ed. 2) 441/2 In the earliest forms of jazz the leader ‘stomped off’ the tempo (gave it by tapping his foot).
c. intr. To dance or play a stomp. Cf. stomp n. 1.
1925(tune-title) Everybody stomp. 1929(tune-title) I'm gonna stomp, Mr. Henry Lee. 1937C. Connolly in L. Russell Press Gang! 80 And then dancing, while..David stomps on the piano. 1957D. Hague in S. Traill Concerning Jazz 112 A resurgence of swing in evidence..and Dixieland still stomping here and there. 1968Daily Mail 16 Mar. 6/1 ‘Ullo, darlin', can you stomp?’ my rocker friend Jonny asked gaily. I looked puzzled. ‘It's the new Rocker dance,’ he explained. 1974Ibid. 16 Oct. 6/4 He does not stomp quite so energetically these days.
Hence stomped |stɒmpt| ppl. a.
1946R. Blesh Shining Trumpets iv. 95 A stomped and hand-clapped rhythmic base. 1950― & Janis They all played Ragtime ix. 176 Nor is erudite musical analysis needed to differentiate ragtime from jazz when one has heard him play the Maple Leaf in the authentic St. Louis manner and then follow with his own complex stomped version ‘along the lines of jazz creation’.
▪ III. stomp, n. orig. and chiefly U.S.|stɒmp|
[f. stomp v.2]
1. a. Chiefly Jazz. A lively dance, usu. involving heavy stamping; also, a tune or song suitable for such a dance; stomping rhythm. Also attrib.
1912(tune-title) Stomp dance. 1923(tune-title) House rent stomp. 1926Amer. Mercury Apr. 388/1 Hot jazz (which the Charleston and the Stomp—ye gods, what a name!—are bringing back, worse luck!). 1929Wodehouse Summer Lightning iv. 108 Leopold's justly famous band, its cheeks puffed out and its eyeballs rolling, was playing a popular melody with lots of stomp in it. 1933Fortune Aug. 90/3 Gene Gifford has composed and arranged some of the neatest exercises in stomp (very fast) time. 1940Swing June 24/2 Fundamentally, there are two types of jazz—blues and stomps... Stomp tunes are gay; blues are mournful. 1952Mademoiselle Dec. 120/3 The great era of the stomp was the twenties. 1956H. Kurnitz Invasion of Privacy xiii. 85 She opened..with ‘Vissi d'arte’ from Tosca..and to close, a hot and authentic stomp. 1968Daily Mail 16 Mar. 6/5 Others did the stomp, an accelerated calypso, one of the most energetic and difficult dances I have ever tried to learn. 1977J. Wainwright Do Nothin' till you hear from Me vii. 116 An outfit, straight from a ‘viper session’ could take a stomp, play it at..a nice, bouncy pace, and it came out faster than seemed mortally possible.
b. A heavy stamping step to the beat of such a dance.
1927Observer 6 Feb. 15/7 Once you get the stomp—the peculiar beat of the foot—and you both hit the floor and not a neighbour's ankle, it is quite suitable as a ballroom dance. 1940Time 25 Nov. 41/1 Dancer Massine [pieces out] simple footwork with deft body movements, well-timed claps and stomps. 1942Sat. Even. Post 14 Feb. 20/2 A fast double shuffle that should have climaxed in a stomp. 1971B. Malamud Tenants 217 Some of the youths try to imitate the newly married couples shaking their hips and shoulders but give it up and break into a stomp, shake, and whirl.
2. A party characterized by lively dancing to popular music; spec. a rent party.
1926Whiteman & McBride Jazz viii. 177 The ‘stomp’ consisted of a barbecue with music afterwards, during and before. The guests raised a purse to save their host's home and also composed a new blues for the occasion. 1940[see 2 a]. 1967E. A. Gollschewsky in Coast to Coast 1965–66 86 The stomp crowd breaking up down at the Junior Citizens' Hall. 1977P. Dickinson Walking Dead iii. iii. 230 The villagers met..for dances—those noisy nights half-way between revivalist meetings and beer-hall stomp.
3. A heavy, tramping gait or walk; on the stomp: tramping or trudging from place to place.
1971B. W. Aldiss Soldier Erect 205 The parade-ground stomp was out in Dimapur, where it raised too much dust; the fashion was for a sort of brisk stroll, a gun-fighter's walk. 1977‘J. le Carré’ Hon. Schoolboy xvi. 392 He went on the stomp for refugee and orphan stories. 1982Times 6 Sept. 7/1 A stomp along the cliff path, talking all the way. |