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Callithump

//ˈkæ.lɪ.θʌmp// noun, slang

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Noun
  1. 1
    A somewhat riotous parade, accompanied with the blowing of tin horns and other discordant noises. US, colloquial, dated

    "You probably don't know what callithump is, but you will find out if you undertake to hoe sod-ground potatoes in July. It has something to do with brazen trumpets and violence. I became acquainted with callithump when I straightened out the asparagus-bed."

  2. 2
    a noisy mock serenade (made by banging pans and kettles) to a newly married couple wordnet
  3. 3
    A burlesque serenade; a charivari. US, colloquial, dated
  4. 4
    a noisy boisterous parade wordnet

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from calli- + thump, or an alteration and backformation from "Gallithumpian", a Dorset and Devon word from 1790s for a society of radical social reformers, in reference to "noisy disturbers of elections and meetings

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