单词 | romp |
释义 | romp I. 1. 2. a. < both dogs loose, it is quite possible that a joyful romp rather than a dogfight would result — J.W.Cross > < students' day features a parade through town with all manner of romp and hilarity — Ernest Stock > < a high-spirited romp which is the American version of country dancing — Angelica Gibbs > b. < had made a tryst for a twilight romp — Lucy M. Montgomery > < the lovers … going out onto the porch in a romp every little while — Elizabeth M. Roberts > 3. < a gray colt who beat 18 other well fancied youngsters in a romp — G.F.T.Ryall > < is expected to win the political race in a romp > < a 65-yard touchdown romp > 4. < it was a semiautobiographical romp through the sophisticated continental and domestic settings — Edward Lueders > < a play that begins like another romp about a junior miss up to junior mischief — Time > < the plot is no more than an artfully regulated romp — Newsweek > Synonyms: see play II. intransitive verb 1. a. < found the general romping in the living room with his five children — Newsweek > < the hugest playmate that ever romped with fairies and the aery sprites of merry mischief — G.K.Chesterton > b. < romp with one's … pretty serving girl when wifie's busy bathing — Robert Browning > < during the trial of a paternity suit it was brought out that … the footmen romped with the servant girls — R.D.Altick > 2. a. < the wind was romping through the streets like a boisterous country visitor — Rebecca West > < girls … romp down the stone steps with such a deafening clatter — Sam Heppner > < boats that romped over the bay — Jean Stafford > b. < romped home a winner … in his first start — G.F.T.Ryall > < romped for four touchdowns and three conversion points — Newsweek > < romping home with 51 of the 52 seats up for election — Alex Josey > 3. a. < aiming at speed, achieves it by letting his smooth cast romp gayly and ripple off the script's cute lines at a fast rate — P.T.Hartung > < romp throughout the half hour flubbing and gagging, sticking to script and bouncing off into ad lib — Newsweek > b. < the two romp through chase choruses, sometimes trading every four bars, which is … quite exciting as they play it — Bill Simon > < watching the piano player take his chorus, with a fine romping offbeat in the treble — Vincent McHugh > < romped through a few popular songs, backed up by a drummer and a bass player — Douglas Watt > transitive verb < romp the children to bed > Synonyms: see play |
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