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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
tump .
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Examples
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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My wife (from Savannah, GA) uses “tumped over,” sort of a hybrid of turned over + dumped over.
Waldo Jaquith - 5 idioms my wife finds unconvincing when I use. 2007
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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.
Dream State Diane Roberts 2008
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Or its past tense, "Damn, the swingset tumped over again".
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The rumbling sound, that had ceased when the first cart tumped over, started up again.
The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996
vendingmachine commented on the word tumped
portmanteau of turned over + dumped over.
The house burned because the cook tumped over a pan of hot lard, which exploded.
"Damn, the swingset tumped over again”.
"All of the kayaks tumped over."
June 17, 2015