"thump" is a correct and usable word in written English.
It can be used when making the sound of a heavy object hitting something else, or can be used to describe something that is heavy and hits against something else. Example: After the storm, the thunder thumped loudly in the night sky.
Then there is something about a beat, a simple thump in the lower regions, that keeps the mind focused and the body driving on.
A lot of his friends turned right around and left the dancefloor, baffled by the downtempo thrum and thump of a Digital Mystikz tune.
That is essentially an election-year dare: Republicans will either have to violate a core principle and vote for a measure that will raise the deficit, or they will have to hand Democrats a cudgel with which to thump them all the way to November.
"If you don't thump the table you can't frighten them", he said.
Several leading politicians reckoned that the issue offered a good stick with which to thump the government.Under legislation now before parliament, homosexuals wishing to commit themselves formally to a same-sex lover would be invited to "register" their partnership with the state.
This week business was sent reeling by a thump from the new government, followed by a left hook from the largest union.The first blow was the heavier: the new government's planned tax reform.
But in recent weeks Kyrgyz villagers, angered by disputes with Tajik border guards, have on several occasions blocked the only road that connects the enclave to the rest of Tajikistan.When tensions rise, politicians in distant capitals thump their chests and send more soldiers eg the Kyrgyz spetsnaz billeted in the village school at Ak-Sai, who have been there since the shootings in January.
Three years ago, when the president won the last general election, albeit on flagrantly unequal terms, he could count on local party chiefs and worthies and on his own army and police to deliver basic services and to thump those who talked out of turn.Now, even in a place like Gutu, the supply of such things as cooking oil, petrol, maize meal (the country's staple), sugar and salt is lacking.
It would be a realignment of the British political firmament that would strengthen, not weaken, the British tradition of two-party politics.On the continent, coalition parties understand perfectly well that they can work together in a government for a few years, then thump each other about at election time.
That was certainly the case during the 22-day shutdown of 1995-96, whelpedelped Bill Clinton to thump Bob Dole in the presidential election that followed.
Socialist-inclined workers thought Mr Aznar might thump the trade unions.
