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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of lamp.

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Examples

  • Presently Mink inquired whether I had "lamped" anything, and I replied that I had not.

    Police!!! Henry Hutt 1899

  • Mandelson did not know that, and if he had lamped her in return, I would have defended his right to do so, for he did not know what had just been thrown.

    Could John Prescott just possibly be right? Young Mr. Brown 2009

  • And a present example of this is EastEnders star Lacey Turner getting lamped in the head in a supermarket car park.

    Shane Richie Remakes Minder, Expects People To Care 2008

  • Goodbye to runs after midnight, under street-lamped skies.

    Integritygate: Reece Paid Propaganda Nathaniel Livingston 2005

  • Now the powdery skin, sun-lamped to a pale nicotine colour, was supported only by his cheek-bones, like a tent when the guy ropes are slackened.

    Funeral In Berlin Deighton, Len, 1929- 1964

  • The brass-lamped motor-car came coughing up the road, followed by the clamorous charabanc; the solid-tyred bus climbed the dusty hills and more people came and went.

    Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

  • He was short and vast, sun-lamped and pomaded, a man in a buttressed pin-stripe suit with a red carnation withering in the lapel.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • He was short and vast, sun-lamped and pomaded, a man in a buttressed pin-stripe suit with a red carnation withering in the lapel.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • I was born in the dressing room, cradled in the top of a flat theatrical trunk with my ears full of Shakespeare's lines before I ever said "Mama," let alone lamped a TV; hush-walked when I cried by whoever was off stage, old props my first toys, trying to eat crepe hair my first indiscretion, sticks of grease-paint my first crayons.

    No Great Magic Fritz Leiber 1951

  • The face, so far as it could be seen, was cadaverous and cruel, but half of it was concealed by a black vizor of velvet, through which lamped a pair of dark, unwinking eyes.

    Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile David Christie Murray

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