Definition of "stomping ground" []

• A customary territory or favorite gathering place. Also called stamping ground. (noun)

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• "Just after the Harley campaign, I took her to a fund-raiser in my old stomping ground of Sussex County, at the home of the New Jersey Republican Party chair, Ginnie Littell."
• "The Yankee Tavern, a part of the neighborhood since 1928 and the former stomping ground of Yankee legends Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Mickey Mantle, was strangely silent in October of last year."