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- verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
tromp .
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Examples
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There is rampant systemic racism in SF community, and we people of colour in this community have no need to apologise for being pissed the hell off about it; the first time that someone tromps on your foot, you might politely ask them to stop doing it.
weekly nathreee 2009
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Devastator — a giant Decepticon built out of seven other robots — tromps across the ancient monuments as he is barraged with bullets from an international military fighting force.
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A lesson I'm still working to learn nalohopkinson writes: [T] he first time that someone tromps on your foot, you might politely ask them to stop doing it.
Final Wiscon schedule nalohopkinson 2009
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Whatever, she says and tromps right through my line of vision and down the hall.
Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010
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Hearing these eight, nine, ten minute tromps through highlife-fueled funk is a world away from the tasty tidbits of Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (Soundway).
Derek Beres: Global Beat Fusion: Afrobeat Beyond and Behind Fela 2010
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She rolls her eyes at me and tromps for the stairs.
Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010
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Still, you've got to respect -- no, embrace -- the dance-partner of illusion: money may be on one level an abstraction, but you suffer when it tromps on your instep, and feel the joy of efficacy when you get to whirl it across the floor to serve your mission.
Marc Ian Barasch: Practicing 'Green Compassion': How Do You Stack Up? 2010
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Hearing these eight, nine, ten minute tromps through highlife-fueled funk is a world away from the tasty tidbits of Nigeria Special Volume 2: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds & Nigerian Blues 1970-6 (Soundway).
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“I gotta bail,” she says, and tromps down the hallway without even saying good-bye.
Losing Faith Denise Jaden 2010
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That when Godzilla tromps through downtown Tokyo stomping down office buildings he means well and he's just misunderstood.
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