THUMPING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thumping mean? 

• THUMPING (noun)
  The noun THUMPING has 1 sense:

1. a heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

  Familiarity information: THUMPING used as a noun is very rare.

• THUMPING (adjective)
  The adjective THUMPING has 1 sense:

1. (used informally) very large

  Familiarity information: THUMPING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THUMPING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A heavy dull sound (as made by impact of heavy objects)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural events

Synonyms:

clump; clunk; thud; thump; thumping

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

sound (the sudden occurrence of an audible event)

Derivation:

thump (make a dull sound)

• THUMPING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(used informally) very large

Synonyms:

banging; humongous; thumping; walloping; whopping

Context example:

a thumping loss

Similar:

big; large (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)

Domain usage:

colloquialism (a colloquial expression; characteristic of spoken or written communication that seeks to imitate informal speech)

 Context examples 

At a more than ordinary pitch of thumping and hallooing in the passage, he exclaimed, Devil take those young dogs!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

And here a fresh alarm brought me to a standstill with a thumping heart.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

You can feel Uranus thumping around the heavens, and it will be a joy to see that at long last you are closer to grasping a dream.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

“Sure,” answered O’Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of Matthewson’s.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

There was a silence in which I could hear my poor heart thumping, and then when I looked again the figure was gone, and the low creak, creak was heard once more upon the stairs.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)