tamp
verb /tæmp/
/tæmp/
Verb Forms
| present simple I / you / we / they tamp | /tæmp/ /tæmp/ |
| he / she / it tamps | /tæmps/ /tæmps/ |
| past simple tamped | /tæmpt/ /tæmpt/ |
| past participle tamped | /tæmpt/ /tæmpt/ |
| -ing form tamping | /ˈtæmpɪŋ/ /ˈtæmpɪŋ/ |
- tamp something (down) to press something down hard, especially into a closed space
- He tamped down the tobacco in his pipe with his thumb.
Word Originearly 19th cent.: probably a back-formation from tampin (interpreted as ‘tamping’), variant of tampion.