Thump

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ÊŒmp

Full definition of thump

Noun

1. a blow that produces a muffled sound
• TatlerThe watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.
2. the sound of such a blow; a thud

Verb

1. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.
• William ShakespeareThese bastard Bretons, whom our fathers
  Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.
• 2011, January 19, Jonathan Stevenson, Leeds 1-3 Arsenal, Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit.
2. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
3. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.
• 2013-06-29, Travels and travails, Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.
4. Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.