• IPA: /θʌmp/

thump (plural thumps)

1. A blow that produces a muffled sound.

   • The watchman gave so great a thump at my door, that I awaked at the knock.

2. The sound of such a blow; a thud.
3. (dated, colloquial, euphemism) Used to replace the vulgar or blasphemous element in "what the hell" and similar phrases.

   Where the thump have you been?!

• French: coup sourd
• German: dumpfer Schlag
• Spanish: l sordo

• German: dumpf
• Spanish: ruido sordo

thump (thumps, present participle thumping; past and past participle thumped)

1. (transitive) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump#noun|thump.
   • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act V, scene iii]:

     These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd.

2. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.

   The cat thumped its tail in irritation.

3. (intransitive) To thud or pound.
4. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.

   Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance.

• Spanish: golpear, azotar

• Spanish: golpear, azotar

• French: tambouriner
• Spanish: tamborilear, golpetear