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romping home

romping home is the present participle and gerund of romp home.

Meaning of romp home

Verb

romp home (third-person singular simple present romps home, present participle romping home, simple past and past participle romped home)

  1. (idiomatic) To win easily, especially in a race.
    • The hour soon passed, and Charteris, having first seen the Oldest Inhabitant's nevvy romp home in the egg and spoon event, took himself off to the dressing-tent, and began to get into his running clothes.1903, P. G. Wodehouse, Tales of St. Austin's

Questions about romping home

What is romping home the present participle and gerund of?
Romping home is the present participle and gerund of romp home.

Words near romping home in the dictionary

  1. romperings
  2. rompers
  3. rompery
  4. romping
  5. romping good
  6. romping home
  7. rompingly
  8. rompings
  9. rompish
  10. rompishly
  11. rompishness

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