thumping

[ thuhm-ping ]

adjective

1. of, like, or pertaining to a thump.
2. strikingly great, immense, exceptional, or impressive; resounding:

   a thumping victory at the polls.

thumping

/ ˈθʌmpɪŋ /

adjective

1. slang.
   prenominal huge or excessive

   a thumping loss

Derived Forms

• ˈthumpingly, adverb

Other Words From

• thumping·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of thumping¹

First recorded in 1570–80; thump + -ing ²

Example Sentences

With about a minute left in the first half of the Arizona Cardinals’ Week 4 thumping of the Los Angeles Rams, Kyler Murray showed off.

From FiveThirtyEight

I lived on a quiet street near a beach and would open a window to listen for the telltale thumping of waves.

From Outside Online

Mitchell put together a memorable March Madness for the Baylor Bears that culminated in a thumping of Kispert’s Bulldogs.

From FiveThirtyEight

Last year, the team’s Turkey Day thumping of the Cowboys sparked a December run to capture the NFC East crown, but this season, it gets the Monday night slot after the holiday against Seattle.

From Washington Post

The margin was almost identical to last month’s 41-24 loss at Alabama and a bit better than last year’s 37-10 thumping at the hands of LSU in the SEC title game.

From Washington Post

Bible-thumping Louisiana Sen. David Vitter was outed as a john for the “D.C. Madam” in 2007.

From The Daily Beast

There was a time when the bigoted, Bible-thumping crowd ran roughshod over D.C. Now, not so much.

From The Daily Beast

I also wanted to ask you about the chest-thumping scene in The Wolf of Wall Street.

From The Daily Beast

His “bible thumping” takes him away from Portland often, to cities as far as D.C. and New Orleans.

From The Daily Beast

These day he engages the political world with tub-thumping opinion columns in the Spanish daily El Pais.

From The Daily Beast

She paused for a fraction of a second, while his heart went thumping against his ribs.

From Project Gutenberg

Oh, the wildness of that sound—and the thumping of the heart of the hunter, and the breathless suspense, and the burning desire.

From Project Gutenberg

And my heart began thumping until I feared its beating would be audible at a distance.

From Project Gutenberg

But the least thinking of him sufficed to set her heart to thumping again; and so she shrunk from that train of thought.

From Project Gutenberg

The men were all at their dinner, when I heard the boat thumping under the main channels.

From Project Gutenberg

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