ROMP

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does romp mean? 

• ROMP (noun)
  The noun ROMP has 3 senses:

1. an easy victory

2. a girl who behaves in a boyish manner

3. gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

  Familiarity information: ROMP used as a noun is uncommon.

• ROMP (verb)
  The verb ROMP has 3 senses:

1. play boisterously

2. run easily and fairly fast

3. win easily

  Familiarity information: ROMP used as a verb is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ROMP (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An easy victory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

blowout; laugher; romp; runaway; shoo-in; walkaway

Hypernyms ("romp" is a kind of...):

triumph; victory (a successful ending of a struggle or contest)

Derivation:

romp (win easily)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A girl who behaves in a boyish manner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

hoyden; romp; tomboy

Hypernyms ("romp" is a kind of...):

fille; girl; miss; missy; young lady; young woman (a young female)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

caper; frolic; gambol; play; romp

Context example:

their frolic in the surf threatened to become ugly

Hypernyms ("romp" is a kind of...):

diversion; recreation (an activity that diverts or amuses or stimulates)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "romp"):

coquetry; dalliance; flirt; flirtation; flirting; toying (playful behavior intended to arouse sexual interest)

craziness; folly; foolery; indulgence; lunacy; tomfoolery (foolish or senseless behavior)

game (frivolous or trifling behavior)

horseplay (rowdy or boisterous play)

teasing (playful vexation)

word play (playing on words or speech sounds)

Derivation:

romp (play boisterously)

• ROMP (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they romp    ... he / she / it romps   
Past simple: romped   
Past participle: romped   
-ing form: romping   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Play boisterously

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

cavort; disport; frisk; frolic; gambol; lark; lark about; rollick; romp; run around; skylark; sport

Context example:

The toddlers romped in the playroom

Hypernyms (to "romp" is one way to...):

play (be at play; be engaged in playful activity; amuse oneself in a way characteristic of children)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s PP

Derivation:

romp (gay or light-hearted recreational activity for diversion or amusement)

romper (a person who romps or frolics)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Run easily and fairly fast

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Hypernyms (to "romp" is one way to...):

run (move fast by using one's feet, with one foot off the ground at any given time)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

romper (a person who romps or frolics)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Win easily

Classified under:

Verbs of fighting, athletic activities

Context example:

romp a race

Hypernyms (to "romp" is one way to...):

win (be the winner in a contest or competition; be victorious)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

romp (an easy victory)

 Context examples 

But nobody else ever romped with White Fang.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Well then, when you tumbled upstairs, said Traddles, I was romping with the girls.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

After tea and a go-to-bed romp with the little girls, I attacked the big workbasket, and had a quiet evening chatting with my new friend.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Why, Morton or Johnson, the Oxford fliers, could romp round him.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child—though equally dependent and friendless—Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

The Company, who had passed the night in a sheltered gully, were already astir, some crowding round the blazing fires and others romping or leaping over each other's backs for their limbs were chilled and the air biting.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the end of such a romp, when blow and cuff and snap and snarl were fast and furious, they would break off suddenly and stand several feet apart, glaring at each other.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I must look after Grace, she is romping.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

That he allowed the master these liberties was no reason that he should be a common dog, loving here and loving there, everybody's property for a romp and good time.

(White Fang, by Jack London)