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Definition of "tumped" []

  • Simple past tense and past participle of tump. (verb)

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Use "tumped" in a sentence
  • "He said he thought he saw a yellow kayak and was going to help when he was overcome by the choppy water and "tumped" (Galveston dialect) over."
  • "My wife (from Savannah, GA) uses “tumped over,” sort of a hybrid of turned over + dumped over."
  • "The house burned because the cook tumped over a pan of hot lard, which exploded; or a vengeful ex-slave lit a piece of fat wood under the house and fed the fire with the last bottle of old Madeira that George Washington Gilbert, a drinking Methodist, had brought from Carolina; or Sister Mary, who was always cold-natured, stood too close to the parlor hearth at her wedding and set her veil on fire."