stamping ground

Definition of stamping groundnext
as in haunt
a place for spending time or for socializing if she isn't at home, you can usually find her at the local library, her favorite stamping ground

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Noun
  • And to return to some of favorite haunts, but also to see what's next.
    Matt Zahn, CBS News, 27 June 2026
  • The younger Burrows spent hours of his youth in theaters and studios watching his father work, dining with him at such famed New York haunts as Sardi’s and Gallagher’s and meeting celebrities who attended his father’s New Year’s Eve parties.
    Beth Harris, Fortune, 20 June 2026
Noun
  • Long associated with the PGA Tour, Riviera is among golf's most prestigious properties and a stomping ground of myriad Hollywood celebrities and corporate power brokers.
    Mike Dojc, Forbes.com, 4 June 2026
  • The movie reps Spielberg’s return to his extra-terrestrial invasion stomping ground made popular with such tentpoles as Close Encounters of the Third Kind, E.T., and War of the Worlds.
    Matt Grobar, Deadline, 8 Feb. 2026
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“Stamping ground.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/stamping%20ground. Accessed 4 Jul. 2026.

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