yomp
/jɒmp
/British informal
verb [no object, with adverbial of direction]
(Of a soldier) march with heavy equipment over difficult terrain: squaddies yomping over the hills...
- One minute your little soldiers are happily yomping towards the nearest town and the next, as if by magic, a column of tanks appears out of nowhere!
- Even without British troops yomping across it, the lashing rain and hard hills make the Falkland Islands an unlikely promised land.
- Last May they started training again, yomping up hills carrying loaded rucksacks.
noun
A march with heavy equipment over difficult terrain: a 60 km yomp...
- To begin the yomp, the Royals crossed a river in a snow flurry.
- He finds a long yomp to be good for body, mind and spirit.
- The disciplinarian drill sergeant Javier Clemente was appointed as their new manager last Monday, charged with hauling a bedraggled set of troops on a yomp away from relegation.
Origin
1980s: of unknown origin. The word came into prominence when used by the Royal Marines during the Falklands War of 1982.
Rhymes
- Commonwealth Games
- Commonwealth of Independent States
- Common Worship
- commotion
- commove
- comms
- communal
- communalise
- communalism
- communalist
- communalistic
- communality
- communalization
- communalize
- communalizer
- communal land
- communal lands
- communally
- communar
- communard
- communautaire
- commune
- communer
- communibus annis
- communicability