pump
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: pŭmp
ipa: /pʌmp/
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: pumps
form: pumping
form: pumped
form: pumped
Etymology: From Middle English pumpe, possibly from Middle Dutch pompe (“pipe, water conduit”) or Middle Low German pumpe (“pump”), probably ultimately imitative.
Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and Danish pompe; also Spanish bomba (“pump”).
Senses: examples: text: I've been pumping for over a minute but the water isn't coming through.
text: I've pumped over 1000 gallons of water in the last ten minutes.
glosses: To use a pump; to move (water or other liquid) by means of a pump.
examples: text: The underlying cause of the warming is human activities pumping carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, scientists say. But the reasons why marine heating is speeding up now are far from clear.
ref: 2023 August 7, Clive Cookson, “Missing ice and bleached coral: the sudden warming of the oceans”, in Financial Times:
glosses: To inject or pour (something) into someone or something in a manner similar to a pump.
examples: text: Pump him soundly, impudent Fellow.
ref: 1676, Thomas Shadwell, The Virtuoso:
text: ‘So much the worse for him. I've had my eye on him for some time. He shall be prettily pumped upon.’
ref: 1872, George Eliot, Middlemarch, Book IV, chapter 37:
glosses: To put (a person or part of the body) under a stream of water from a pump, as a punishment or as a form of medical treatment; to force a pump of water upon or on someone.
examples: text: But pump not me for politics.
ref: 1682, Thomas Otway, Venice Preserv'd:
text: I had no idea why he wanted to be sociable, but as we chatted in there it suddenly occurred to me the fellow was trying to get at something - in fact, pumping me.
ref: 1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 214:
text: Occasionally, I've thought about the positive side of being involved with someone with your privileges. I have thought that it's a relief that your parents have money. In a pinch, if something were to happen, to either one of us, you could pump your parents for money. I hope it never gets to that but it's nice knowing that there's some rich in-laws out there.
ref: 1990 February 4, Vanessa Nemeth, Stephanie Poggi, “Bumps And All”, in Gay Community News, volume 17, number 29, page 12:
text: "Did Dora just offer up that advice, or were you pumping her for information?" "Shoot, I outed my informant. I'm a terrible spy."
ref: 2017, Jeph Jacques, Questionable Content (webcomic), Number 3509: Sensitive Information:
synonyms: grill
interrogate
glosses: To gain something, especially information, from (a person) by persistent questioning.
examples: text: Thus to and again to our paſtime we went, / And my Cards I play'd fairly to Jenny's content; / I work'd at her Pump till my Sucker grew dry, / Then I left pumping, a good Reaſon why.
ref: 1750, “Ge ho, Dobbin or the Waggoner”, in The Tulip, page 2:
text: Pump my tight hole so long and hard that I can't walk or sit when you're done.
ref: 1990 December 9, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 21, page 12:
synonyms: word: bang
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
word: Formal terms
word: bed
word: coit
word: coitize
word: dight
word: enjoy
word: feague
word: go in unto
word: go to bed with
word: have
word: know
word: lie by
word: lie with
word: love
word: mount
word: occupy
word: penetrate
word: season
word: seduce
word: sleep with
word: take
word: Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with"
word: Informal and slang terms
word: ball
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beep
word: be with
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: boom-boom
word: dick
word: diddle
word: dig out
word: do
word: doink
word: drill
word: eff
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: fill
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get into someone's pants
word: get over on
word: get up in
word: give someone one
word: give someone the time
word: go with
word: have one's way with
word: have one's wicked way with
word: hit
word: hump
word: jape
word: jump
word: jump someone's bones
word: knob
word: knock
word: knock off
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: lay
word: love up
word: make
word: nail
word: plough
word: plug
word: poke
word: pork
word: pound
word: prig
word: pump
word: ream
word: rock
word: roger
word: root
word: run through
word: rut
word: sard
word: schlong
word: screw
word: see to
word: service
word: shaft
word: shag
word: shelve
word: slay
word: slip it to
word: smash
word: smush
word: stallionize
word: swive
word: tap
word: tup
word: wap
glosses: To have sex with; to sexually penetrate, especially with a thrusting motion.
glosses: To express milk from (a breast) by means of a breast pump.
examples: text: He pumped up the air-bed by hand, but used the service station air to pump up the tyres.
glosses: To fill with air by means of a pump; to inflate.
raw_tags: followed by up
examples: text: I pumped my fist with joy when I won the race.
glosses: To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
topics: bodybuilding
hobbies
lifestyle
sports
synonyms: big up
lift
pump iron
glosses: To enlarge the body by means of weightlifting or steroid use.
synonyms: handshake
glosses: To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
examples: text: The waves were really pumping this morning.
text: Last night's party was really pumping.
glosses: Of music: to be loud, to have strong bass and rhythms; (by extension) to be full of energy.
examples: text: Blackburn pumped long balls towards Diouf as they became increasingly desperate to salvage a point, but Wigan held on for a win that may prove crucial in their quest for Premier League survival.
ref: 2011 February 5, Michael Da Silva, “Wigan 4 - 3 Blackburn”, in BBC:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: To kick, throw, or hit the ball far and high.
examples: text: People never pumped, just never never, but sometimes ye got smells.
ref: 2008, James Kelman, Kieron Smith, Boy, Penguin, published 2009, page 82:
synonyms: word: trump
word: badger
word: blow off
word: break ass
word: break wind
word: crepitate
word: curmur
word: cut one loose
word: cut the cheese
word: drop a bomb
word: fart
word: flatulate
word: grunt
word: guff
word: let fluffy off the chain
word: let one go
word: let one rip
word: pass gas
word: pass wind
word: poop
word: poot
word: pump
word: rip ass
word: rip one
word: step on a duck
word: step on a frog
word: toot
word: trump
glosses: To pass gas; to fart quietly.
examples: text: Sure enough, rather than pumping a message to the Console window, you will now see a message box displaying your message
ref: 2006, Andrew Troelsen, Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform:
text: The CLR pumps messages automatically during a wait, reducing the likelihood of this but it can show up in native code.
ref: 2008, Joe Duffy, Concurrent Programming on Windows:
text: c. 2012, Microsoft, .NET Framework 4.5 documentation for Marshal.CleanupUnusedObjectsInCurrentContext
The interop system pumps messages while it attempts to clean up RCWs.
topics: computing
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
sciences
glosses: To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
glosses: To inject silicone into the body in order to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.
examples: text: As quick as was el adrea, Tarzan of the Apes was quicker, and so the great beast crashed against a tree where he had expected to feel the soft flesh of man, while Tarzan, a couple of paces to the right, pumped another bullet into him that brought him clawing and roaring to his side.
ref: 1913, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Return of Tarzan, New York: Ballantine Books, published 1963, page 80:
glosses: To fire a bullet from a firearm.
examples: text: He ran on, pumping another round up into his scattergun.
glosses: To load a shell into the chamber of a pump-action shotgun by pumping the mechanism.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: air pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: air-pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: all hands to the pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: arm pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: a yard of pump water
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: backpump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: bicycle pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: bike pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: bilge pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: biological pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: body pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: breast pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: bull pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: chain pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: circulating pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: cock pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: compression pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: donkey pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: door pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: drain pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: draught on Aldgate pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: draught on the pump at Aldgate
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: ebullating pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: feed pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: fist pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: fist-pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: force pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: forepump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: fuel pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: gas pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: hand pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: handpump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: happiness pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: head pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: heat pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: hogger pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: intuition pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: jockey pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: lift pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: love pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: monkey pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: mud pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: one-pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: one pump chump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: on pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pallet pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: parish-pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: parish pump politics
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: penis pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: petrol pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: plunger pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: positive displacement pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: price at the pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: prime the pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: proton-pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: proton pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: proton pump inhibitor
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: proton-pump inhibitor
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump action
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump and dump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-and-dump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump and jump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump attendant
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-car
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump car
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump drill
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pumped
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-fake
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump fake
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pumphouse
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump house
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump iron
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-jet
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump jockey
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump one's fist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump one's fists
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump organ
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump out
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump pic
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-prime
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-room
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump room
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump someone's fist
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump someone's tires
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump trolley
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump-trolley
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump truck
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump up
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump up someone's tires
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pump valve
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: pussy pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: rope pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: roughing pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: rough pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: Sahara pump theory
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: sand pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: scavenge pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: screw pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: slider pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: sodium-potassium pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: sodium pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: spiral pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: Sprengel pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: stirrup pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: stomach pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: suction pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: sump pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: thin as a yard of pump water
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: Toepler pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: turbine pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: under the pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: unlimited pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: vacuum pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: water pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: water pump pliers
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: wrecking pump
sense: Terms derived from the noun or verb pump
word: yabby pump