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curb stomp

curb stomp verb: to stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb (often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb).

Verb

curb stomp (third-person singular simple present curb stomps, present participle curb stomping, simple past and past participle curb stomped)

  1. (US) To stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb (often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb).
    • The thought that he might actually get bigger was enough to make most people gape in amazement. If even half the stories he'd heard were true (according to Jerry and a kid they both knew named Tom Murphy, Darby had once curb-stomped a grown man's face for threatening to call the police on him ...2004, James A. Moore, Possessions, Dorchester Publishing Company Incorporated, →ISBN
    • And fucking, I curb stomped his head and broke his jaw and stuff. And then if they wouldn't of pulled me back I probably would have killed him heh? And just like-they were holding me heh? And it was like "Fuck you."2005, Narrative Inquiry: NI.
  2. (US, figuratively) To defeat an opponent overwhelmingly or effortlessly.

Noun

curb stomp (plural curb stomps)

  1. (US) An act of curb stomping.
    • Nothing surprises me—guys with guns, screeching women, unleashed dogs. It's why I carry pepper spray in a little holster on my belt. But this, this was the worst of it. I'd just delivered a final curb stomp to somebody who'd once meant a lot ...2010, Gary Phillips, Orange County Noir, Akashic Books, →ISBN, page 267
  2. (US) An extremely one-sided victory.
    • Now, Bismarck and Tirpitz versus Alabama and South Dakota is not quite the same level of curbstomp as the previous battle, mainly due to the fact that, well, the second pair is gonna last - that battle's gonna last more than five minutes; however, it's still a case of, well, the South Dakota class...2018 October 3, Drachinifel, 19:12 from the start, in Ship vs Ship - Who Would Win - Episode 001, archived from the original on 29 Aug 2022

Forms of curb stomp

Verb
third-person singular presentcurb stomps
present participlecurb stomping
past participlecurb stomped
pastcurb stomped
alternative formcurbstomp
alternative formcurb-stomp
alternative UKkerb stomp
Noun
pluralcurb stomps

Questions about curb stomp

What does curb stomp mean?
Curb stomp means to stomp on someone's head, forcing it into a street curb (often while they are positioned with their teeth biting the curb).
What part of speech is curb stomp?
Curb stomp can be a verb or a noun.
What is the past tense of curb stomp?
The past tense of curb stomp is curb stomped.

Words near curb stomp in the dictionary

  1. curb ramp
  2. curb ramps
  3. curb roof
  4. curb roofs
  5. curb service
  6. curb stomp
  7. curb stomped
  8. curb stomping
  9. curb stomps
  10. curb strip
  11. curb strips

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