1 to hit, move or fall with, or make, a dull, heavy noise -- berdetap-detup; berdebap
He thumped the ball past the goalkeeper.
There has been much tub thumping about how the extra money will help the poor.
There is a thumping element in that kind of music.
We have heard that we are to have thumping big electricity price rises as a sweetener for the industry.
Instead, a thumping increase in overdraft facilities followed shortly after the wage claim had been conceded.
They should be given a thumping good pay packet if they are called up.
They are receiving thumping great assessments, which place their whole economic position in doubt.
If they really wanted to inspire their demoralised supporters, the best thing would have been a really good thumping soak-the rich capital levy.
Their houses have vibrated to the thumping noise of music.