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  • noun Krumping: an energetic style of hip-hop dance

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Examples

  • Many people consider it to be a watered down circus version of gymnastics, with only a few mediocre "krump" and "pop" moves in between.

    A different perspective of MTV's America's Best Dance Crew 2008

  • I wondered if one group had been killed, or knocked over, or had merely taken cover in a shell-crater when a German "krump" seemed to burst right among them, though at a distance of even a few hundred yards nothing is so deceiving as the location of a shell-burst in relation to objects in line with it.

    My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

  • "krump" or five-point-nine coming in your direction, advising you which way to dodge and also saving you from unnecessarily running for a dugout if the shell were passing well overhead or short.

    My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

  • It's from your own side! "said one Briton to a German who had been knocked over by a German" krump "when he picked himself up; and the German answered that this did not make him like it any better.

    My Second Year of the War Frederick Palmer 1915

  • BECAUSE YOU'VE READ THIS FAR - Check out these eight-year-olds krump like no one else.

    COLBUFFPOST HILL - Boehner 0, HuffPost Hill 1 Eliot Nelson 2011

  • I thought Twitch and Kherington did ok last night but didn't "WOW!" me as they have in the past tango and krump.

    SYTYCD: Bollywood, baby! 2008

  • Judges trying to describe desired effects in krump or hip-hop numbers by affecting what they think are urban or African-American speech patterns or gestures is not a good plan.

    SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: The Politics of Dancing « TV BACON 2008

  • I thought Twitch and Kherington did ok last night but didn't "WOW!" me as they have in the past tango and krump.

    SYTYCD: Bollywood, baby! 2008

  • They hear, or worse, actually feel in their chest, the uniquely terrifying deep krump concussion of mortars dropping nearby.

    "SAME ARMY, DIFFERENT WARS" 2007

  • KING: We now welcome to LA.RY KING LIVE David Lachapelle, photographer and director of a new documentary, "Rize" about a dance style which originated on the streets of South Central, L.A. Tommy "The Clown" Johnson, credited with created krump, also a "Rize" dancer.

    CNN Transcript Jul 2, 2005 2005

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