Tamp - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |tæmp|  American pronunciation of the word tamp
Brit.  |tæmp|  British pronunciation of the word tamp

noun

- a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.) (syn: tamper)

verb

- press down tightly (syn: pack)
tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso

Extra examples

To give himself time to think, he tamped down the tobacco in his pipe and then lit it slowly.

The old man tamped down the tobacco with his thumb.

Word forms

verb
I/you/we/they: tamp
he/she/it: tamps
present participle: tamping
past tense: tamped
past participle: tamped
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