Tricky

I was quite... feminine. Not in my actions, in my ways. If one of my uncles had trouble at school, they'd go to that person and thump him. It's all a man thing. They got sent off to boxing when they were kids. You live in a tough area, you get off to boxing. My auntie tried to do that to me. I lasted six minutes in boxing.

English Musician

Neil Robertson

Players thump their cue on the floor when the opponent is coming to the table, or at the table. And the referees need to show some more authority on this stuff. You don't see it so much with top players or on TV tables - they know they can't get away with it.

Australian Celebrity

Chris Kyle

I really don't care what people think of me. I've got my family. I've got my friends. Yes, I have been trained to be a little more aggressive if I need to be, but I don't go around thumping people.

American Soldier

Jackie Kennedy

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

American First Lady

Roy Hodgson

I suffer during games. We follow the action, kicking every ball, wondering if our centre-backs can stop the cross... In some ways, you enjoy it, but your heart is always thumping.

English Businessman

Paul Newman

There are places you go, and they say, 'Take off your dark glasses so we can see your beautiful blue eyes.' And you just want to... you just want to... I dunno, um... thump them.

American Actor

Mystikal

All I gotta do is my job, do what it is that I bring to the table - that fire - and put the thump on these songs, and everything's gonna work from there.

American Musician

Ann Widdecombe

The modern notion of background music is a loud thump, thump, thump. It isn't only conversation it kills but also concentration.

British Politician

Bakermat

I personally love electronic music specifically because it has the rhythm, the kick, the thump - it has energy.

Dutch Musician

Suzi Quatro

A bass should sound like a bass with the thump of the finger against the wood, like it began with stand up.

Use 'thump' to describe strong, heavy sounds from objects hitting surfaces.

Physical Impact

'Thump' suggests the object making the noise is large or heavy.

Implied Weight

The word 'thump' can create a sense of suspense or alarm in stories.

Dramatic Tension

Use 'thump' to show strong emotions causing physical actions.

Expression of Emotion

'Thump' can amplify the forceful nature of an action in your descriptions.

Enhancing Intensity

'Thump' as a noun can imply a violent or aggressive action.

Connotative Violence

'Thump' is informal when referring to a punch or hit; use in casual contexts.

Informal Physicality

Use 'thump' to convey the sensation of a rapidly beating heart due to strong emotions.

Describing Nervousness

'Thump' portrays the intensity of feelings like excitement or fear.

Emotional Intensity

 whereas back muscles contain more slow-twitch muscles to maintain your posture all day. Unlike the skeletal muscles, the body's cardiac and smooth muscles are managed by the autonomic nervous system beyond our direct control. That makes your heart thump roughly 3 billion times over the course of your life,

How your muscular system...

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Charles Limb: Your brain...

 that he gave up studying it. Although everyone could feel their own heart beating, it wasn't always clear what each thump was achieving. Now we know that the heart pumps blood. But that fact wasn't always obvious, because if a heart was exposed or taken out, the body would perish quickly.

How the heart actually...

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Your brain on improv -...

 coming close in person close somebody he was going straight I'm so convinced you can't go straight into this when suddenly well they were just because he suddenly put his arm round to control the sky while he was doing at least something it started thumping I said

Attenborough Recounts...

 oppose tradition thumping the struggle between the two species continues with each side fighting for its offspring while their numbers decline worldwide the turtles will continue arriving to the beach to lay their eggs and until other

Stealing Turtle Eggs Got...

 helmet camera will record all he sees this should have to be one of the most dramatic places in the world it's totally unspoiled there's nobody here but us but it's very hard to enjoy it when you have heart is thumping it's

Abseiling Down the...

 grown men didn't embrace one another, unless someone had died, and not always then; you shook hands or, at a ball game, thumped your friend's back and exchanged blows meant to be codes for affection;

C.K. Williams: Poetry...

 give my proposal two million fertilising finally the government agreed to a million and give me one year to build the network all over the country I couldn't raise thumps everywhere I go

Attracting outside...

 already weakened the right-hand side of the tree now can he take out the left and center every round is striking home the thumping recoil of the barrel is

Thump

A heavy, dull, loud sound.

Often appears as...

To hit something heavily, making a dull, loud noise.

Often appears as...

A hard punch.

Often appears as...

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To beat, as the heart.

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Implied Weight

Dramatic Tension

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