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Tromp

//tɹɒmp// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname from Dutch.
Noun
  1. 1
    An apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace or gathers to generate compressed air.
Verb
  1. 1
    To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot. US, ambitransitive

    "Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed."

  2. 2
    To utterly defeat an opponent. informal

    "The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day."

Etymology

Etymology 1

1892, variant of tramp.

Etymology 2

French trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Doublet of trump and tulumba.

Etymology 3

Borrowed from Dutch Tromp.

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