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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of tump.

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Examples

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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.

    The Daily News - News 2010

  • 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

  • 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

  • Or its past tense, "Damn, the swingset tumped over again".

    languagehat.com: DO WHAT? 2004

  • The rumbling sound, that had ceased when the first cart tumped over, started up again.

    The Doom Brigade Weis, Margaret 1996

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  • 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