romp
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 4
/ɹɒmp/(UK)
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/ɹɒmp/(UK) · /ɹɑmp/(US)
Definition of romp
9 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(intransitive)To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
“sport (formal)”
“When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.”
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verb
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(intransitive)To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
“sport (formal)”
“When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.”
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(US, transitive)(Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
“If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.”
“Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.”
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To make progress or win easily.
“I romped through my finals.”
“England romped to an easy win over Australia.”
“Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.”
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To move with little effort relatively quickly.
“We romped along with the wind astern.”
“From Crewe, of course, the ten-coach load of 347/370 tons was a laughably easy proposition for the two engines, between them in effect making up Class "11" power, and they fairly romped away with the train.”
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(slang)To engage in playful or illicit sex.
“This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style”
“Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.”
“One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.”
noun
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(archaic)Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
“I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.”
- A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit.
- An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment.
- A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
Probably a variant of ramp.
Words you can make from romp
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