romp
UK/ɹɒmp/
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Australia/ɹɔmp/
romp verb: to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
Verb
romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)
- To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
- sport (formal)
- When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
- (Often used with down) To press forcefully, to encourage vehemently, to oppress.
- If I romp down on the gas, it'll do sixty in six seconds.
- Coach Smith had to romp on 'em to get 'em out of a losing streak.
- To make progress or win easily.
- I romped through my finals.
- England romped to an easy win over Australia.
- Antonyms:
- squeak
- To move with little effort relatively quickly.
- We romped along with the wind astern.
- From Crewe, of course, the ten-coach load of 347/370 tons was a laughably easy proposition for the two engines, between them in effect making up Class "11" power, and they fairly romped away with the train.1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477
- To engage in playful or illicit sex.
- This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture
- Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204
Noun
romp (plural romps)
- Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy.
- I will venture to affirm, that a girl, whose spirits have not been damped by inactivity, or innocence tainted by false shame, will always be a romp, and the doll will never excite attention unless confinement allows her no alternative.1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, London: […] J[oseph] Johnson, […], published 1792, →OCLC
- A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit.
- An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment.
- A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily.
- A group of otters.
- There is a new romp of otters in Admirals Cove2026, Heide Island, Romp!: A Journey Through the Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter, Penguin Publishing Group, page 214
- From the promontory, their gaze encompassed the entire mouth of the Boyer River. Laurence, shivering beneath her sealskin cloak, pointed out the white bellies of a romp of otters disporting themselves in the water2007, Martine Desjardins, A Covenant of Salt, Talonbooks, page 79
romp meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
romp in Tamil
- கும்மாளி
romp in Urdu
- اچھل کود, کھیلنا
romp in Malayalam
- തെറിച്ചിപ്പെണ്ണ്, പാഞ്ഞുകളി, വിനോദത്തിനായിട്ടുളള ഊരുചുറ്റൽ
romp in Kannada
- ಚಲ್ಲಾಟದ ಹುಡುಗಿ, ಕುಣಿದಾಡು, ಚಲ್ಲಾಡು, ಚಿಗಿದಾಡು, ಒಟ್ಟಿಗೆ ಆಟವಾಡು, ನೆಗೆದಾಡು
Examples of romp in a sentence
- Emma's bridge club had a romping good laugh about the champagne cork lodging in Betty's hair.
- Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead is a seriocomic romp through the summer of a group of teenagers.
- The fans had a romping good fight after the game.
Antonyms of romp
Forms of romp
| Verb | |
|---|---|
| third-person singular present | romps |
| present participle | romping |
| past participle | romped |
| past | romped |
| Noun | |
| plural | romps |
Origin of romp
Probably a variant of ramp.
Words formed from romp
Words that rhyme with romp
Questions about romp
- What does romp mean?
- Romp means to play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
- What is romp in Tamil?
- Romp in Tamil is கும்மாளி. See Romp meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is romp?
- Romp can be a verb or a noun.
- How do you pronounce romp?
- Romp is pronounced /ɹɒmp/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of romp?
- The past tense of romp is romped.
Words near romp in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: romp (page history and authors); romp (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); romp (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); romp (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); romp (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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