on the stump
Definition of on the stump
: traveling around and giving speeches during a campaign for election to a political office candidates who give the same speech over and over when they're on the stump
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: the basal portion of a bodily part remaining after the rest is removed
: a rudimentary or vestigial bodily part
: the part of a plant and especially a tree remaining attached to the root after the trunk is cut
: to reduce to a stump : trim
: dare, challenge
: to frustrate the progress or efforts of : baffle
: a short thick roll of leather, felt, or paper usually pointed at both ends and used for shading or blending a drawing in crayon, pencil, charcoal, pastel, or chalk
: to tone or treat (a drawing) with a stump
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