# romp
## English
### Etymology

Probably a variant of ramp.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ɹɒmp/
* (US) IPA: /ɹɑmp/
* Rhymes: -ɒmp
* Audio (General Australian):(file)

### Verb

romp (third-person singular simple present romps, present participle romping, simple past and past participle romped)
* (intransitive) To play about roughly, energetically or boisterously.
    When the kids're allowed to romp in the bedroom, they break something.
* (transitive, US) (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 win easily.
    England romped to an easy win over Australia.
** 2014 October 18, Paul Doyle, “Southampton hammer eight past hapless Sunderland in barmy encounter”, in The Guardian:Ronald Koeman collected that prize in the run-up to this game, and then watched his team romp to their biggest victory for nearly a century, inflicting a defeat that Sunderland will struggle to forget.
* (with adverb) To move with little effort relatively quickly.
    We romped along with the wind astern.
** 1959 October, Cecil J. Allen, “Locomotive Running Past and Present”, in Trains Illustrated, page 477: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.
* (slang, chiefly newspapers) To engage in playful or illicit sex.
** 1997, Soundings: A Journal of Politics and Culture:This wasn't salacious, romping 'sex', tabloid style
** 2006, Martin Conboy, quoting The Sun, Tabloid Britain: Constructing a Community Through Language, Taylor & Francis, →ISBN, page 204:Ladbrokes is offering 2-1 odds that contestants WILL romp in the ten-week show.
** 2010 May 13, Sharon Marshall, Tabloid Girl, Hachette UK, →ISBN:One young lady who had just romped with an A-List Hollywood star, panicked during my strategic silence and threw in an entirely unexpected line about how he'd enjoyed throttling himself with his tie.

#### Translations
### Noun

romp (plural romps)
* (now archaic) Someone who romps; especially, a girl or young woman who indulges in boisterous play; a tomboy. [from 17th c.]
** 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: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.
* A period of boisterous play, a frolic; now especially, a bout of sexual activity, especially when illicit. [from 18th c.]
* An enjoyable, fast-paced but essentially inconsequential film, play, or other piece of entertainment. [from 19th c.]
* (chiefly sports) A decisive victory; a game, match etc. which is won easily. [from 20th c.]

#### Derived terms

* romper room
* rompers
* romper suit
* romp home
* romping good
* romp in the hay
* rompy

#### Related terms

* rumpus

#### Translations
### References

* “romp”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

### Anagrams

* PROM, Prom, prom

## Afrikaans
### Pronunciation

* Audio:(file)

### Noun

romp (plural rompe)
* skirt

## Catalan
### Verb

romp
* inflection of rompre:
** third-person singular present indicative
** second-person singular imperative

## Dutch
### Etymology

From Middle Dutch romp, from Proto-Germanic *rumpa-, which could be related to *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”). Also compare Proto-Slavic *rǫbiti (“to chop”).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /rɔmp/
* Rhymes: -ɔmp
* Audio:(file)

### Noun

romp m (plural rompen, diminutive rompje n)
* trunk, torso
* (ship) hull

## Lombard
### Etymology

Akin to Italian rompere, from Latin rumpere.

### Verb

romp
* to break