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noun

ˈ(h)wämp

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as in clap

a loud explosive sound the dish fell off the table and hit the hardwood floor with a whomp

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verb

as in to whip

to defeat by a large margin the basketball team was whomped in the last game of the regular season and missed out on the playoffs

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Noun

Putting aside the frustration for Delroy Lindo, who would’ve looked so great collecting an award with his polka-dot ascot, Sean Penn’s decision to skip the Oscars gave the Best Supporting Actor award a real whomp-whomp feeling. —

Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 16 Mar. 2026 In stained water, the whomp and vibration these lures emit is second to none. —

Joe Cermele, Outdoor Life, 26 Mar. 2025 Its taste crosses the nutty, caramelized purity of homemade ghee with the unmistakable whomp of pork. —

Bill Addison, Los Angeles Times, 18 May 2024 The remaining words were: whoop, phony, chomp, ghoul, chock, and whomp. —

Erik Kain, Forbes, 6 May 2023 Nearly every morning the whomp of Russian artillery shells fired from miles away, across the Dnipro River, shakes the city. —

Jeffrey Gettleman Finbarr O’Reilly, New York Times, 29 Nov. 2022 Winning the turnover war, the unstoppable J.Chase freak show, D.J. Reader putting the whomp on Derrick Henry, E. McPherson topping himself seemingly weekly, Saint Joe blessing the proceedings with his presence. —

Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 24 Jan. 2022 During this siege, several sturgeon in the 5-foot range jumped several times around the boat, landing with a giant whomp and whirl the size of a washtub. —

Tom Stienstra, SFChronicle.com, 23 May 2020

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Last year, the Hoosiers got whomped in the two games against elite opposition (a 38-15 loss at Ohio State and a 27-17 loss at Notre Dame that was 27-3 with less than two minutes left). —

Dan Santaromita, New York Times, 9 Oct. 2025 The opening line has been bet down a point, owing to all the Lions’ injuries at all three defensive levels as well as recency bias from Thanksgiving when the Bears bumbled their way out of a potential upset in Motown and the Packers whomped the Dolphins. —

Hank Gola, New York Daily News, 5 Dec. 2024 The teams design flavorful fantastic creations, from edible spiders to a whomping willow tree. —

Nicole Fallert, USA TODAY, 14 Nov. 2024 There’s a clear upside to the Florida Panthers getting whomped Saturday night. —

Dave Hyde, Sun Sentinel, 16 June 2024 The Goons whomped on a number of unsuspecting victims in mob attacks in Gilbert and nearby communities over the course of a year, in several cases rendering people unconscious or bloodied. —

Abe Kwok, The Arizona Republic, 18 Mar. 2024 Former President Donald Trump is whomping Nikki Haley in her home state, according to the latest polls on the Republican opponents’ prospects in the South Carolina primary, scheduled for Feb. 24. —

Richard Vatz, Baltimore Sun, 7 Feb. 2024 As leader of the Conservative Party, Johnson won a whomping 80-seat majority in the House of Commons in 2019. —

William Booth, Washington Post, 15 June 2023

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Gamma rays are the most energetic type of light rays, typically marking the last gasp of a dying star or the cataclysmic clap of two neutron stars.

— Quanta Magazine, Quanta Magazine, 6 May 2026
Clad in all black, James and the band cracked wise onstage with a brash, swashbuckling attitude, led constant clap-alongs, and took multiple sojourns into the crowd — and that was just during the first song.

— Daniel Kohn, Rolling Stone, 17 Apr. 2026