See romp in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"etymology_text": "Probably a variant of ramp.",
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"text": "When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.",
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"To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously."
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"(intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously."
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "喧闹玩耍"
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"word": "riehua"
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "s’ébattre"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "rebuldar"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "espoldrexar"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
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"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "espoldriñar"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "raufen"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "hancúrozik"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "spassarsela"
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"_dis1": "82 9 4 5 0",
"code": "it",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "ruzzare"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "はしゃぎ回る（はしゃぎまわる"
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"word": "hasyagi mawaru）"
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
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"text": "If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.",
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"text": "Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.",
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"(Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress."
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"(transitive, US) (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress."
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"text": "England romped to an easy win over Australia.",
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"ref": "2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "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 win easily."
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"text": "We romped along with the wind astern.",
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"ref": "1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:",
"text": "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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"To move with little effort relatively quickly."
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"(with adverb) To move with little effort relatively quickly."
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"ref": "1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:",
"text": "This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style",
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"ref": "2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:",
"text": "Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.",
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{
"ref": "2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
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"To engage in playful or illicit sex."
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"(slang, chiefly newspapers) To engage in playful or illicit sex."
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"word": "romp in the hay"
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"word": "romper room"
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"ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:",
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"text": "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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"ref": "1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477:",
"text": "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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"ref": "1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:",
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"ref": "2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:",
"text": "Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.",
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"ref": "2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:",
"text": "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.",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
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"word": "палувам"
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"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "喧闹玩耍"
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
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"code": "nl",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "rondhuppelen"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "peuhata"
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"code": "fi",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "temmeltää"
},
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "riehua"
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"code": "fr",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "s’ébattre"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "rebuldar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "espoldrexar"
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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "espoldriñar"
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "raufen"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "hancúrozik"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "spassarsela"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "ruzzare"
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{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "scorrazzare"
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"code": "ja",
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"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "はしゃぎ回る（はしゃぎまわる"
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"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "hasyagi mawaru）"
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"roman": "lúduva",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "лу́дува"
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{
"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "tuapa"
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"code": "ru",
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"roman": "besitʹsja",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "беситься"
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"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "šalítʹ",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "шали́ть"
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"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "retozar"
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"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to play roughly or energetically",
"word": "rumla"
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"word": "romp in the hay"
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"word": "romper room"
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"word": "rompers"
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{
"word": "romper suit"
},
{
"word": "romp home"
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{
"word": "romping good"
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{
"word": "rompy"
}
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"ref": "1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC:",
"text": "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.",
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"roman": "luduvane",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
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"word": "лудуване"
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"code": "cs",
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"neuter"
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"word": "dovádění"
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"code": "cs",
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"sense": "period of boisterous play",
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"neuter"
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"word": "laškování"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "stoeipartij"
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"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "peuhaaminen"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "peuhu"
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "temmellys"
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"code": "gl",
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"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"tags": [
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"word": "rebuldo"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "period of boisterous play",
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"word": "Balgerei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "Tollerei"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
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"word": "Toben"
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"code": "de",
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"word": "Tollen"
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{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"word": "Herumtollen"
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"code": "de",
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"code": "de",
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"feminine"
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"word": "Rauferei"
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{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "hancúrozás"
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"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "scorrazzata"
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"alt": "おおはしゃぎ",
"code": "ja",
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"roman": "ōhashagi",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "大はしゃぎ"
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"code": "mk",
"lang": "Macedonian",
"roman": "ludúvanje",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
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"neuter"
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"word": "луду́вање"
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "tuapa"
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"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"tags": [
"feminine"
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"word": "swawola"
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{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "retozo"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "period of boisterous play",
"word": "revolcón"
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"word": "romp"
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