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lamped

lamped is the simple past and past participle of lamp.

Meaning of lamp

Verb

lamp (third-person singular simple present lamps, present participle lamping, simple past and past participle lamped)

  1. (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
    • Another man said, “If someone [a customer]^([sic]) gave me loads of hassle, I'd end up lamping them.” Several of them, in fact, had lost their jobs when they lamped the boss.2009 May 20, Margaret Wente, “We are witnessing the passing of working-class masculinity”, in The Globe and Mail, archived from the original on 27 May 2009
  2. (Ireland, UK) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
    Synonyms:
    jacklight, spotlight
  3. (US, slang) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
    • I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays.1988 June 28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy
  4. (transitive) To make (something, such as a vase or urn) into a table lamp.

See all 9 meanings of lamp

Adjective

lamped (comparative more lamped, superlative most lamped)

  1. (Ireland) extremely drunk

Forms of lamped

comparativemore lamped
superlativemost lamped

Phrases with lamped

Questions about lamped

What does lamped mean?
Lamped means extremely drunk.
What is lamped the simple past and past participle of?
Lamped is the simple past and past participle of lamp.
What part of speech is lamped?
Lamped is an adjective.

Words near lamped in the dictionary

  1. lampboards
  2. lampbrush
  3. lampbrush chromosome
  4. lampbrush chromosomes
  5. lampbrushes
  6. lamped
  7. lamped along
  8. Lampedusa
  9. Lampegia
  10. Lampell
  11. Lampells

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