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physics weaponized through your heel, settling arguments bugs and frustrations in one decisive descent
means To bring your foot down hard and heavily, whether to crush something, stamp out a beat, or walk with deliberate, angry force.
from A variant of "stamp," which traces back to Old English "stempan," to pound or crush in a mortar — kin to a wide family of Germanic words for thumping (compare German "stampfen"). "Stomp" itself surfaced as a more emphatic, heavier-footed cousin, the kind of spelling that sounds like what it does.
- musical genre
- a 1920s jazz style built on heavy beats
- broadway hit
- STOMP turns trash cans into percussion instruments
- elephant warning
- herds stomp to send seismic signals through ground
- dance origin
- stepping descends from African gumboot mining dances
- toddler protocol
- the universal sound of a tiny tyrant denied
stomp the yard — 2007 film about competitive stepping dance battles at historically black colleges
stomp broadway show — percussion performance art show running on broadway since 1994 using everyday objects
stomp oakland — stepping group from oakland that won america's best dance crew in 2008