oompah

See also: oom-pah

English

Noun

oompah (plural oompahs)

1. Alternative spelling of oom-pah

Verb

oompah (third-person singular simple present oompahs, present participle oompahing, simple past and past participle oompahed)

1. (transitive) To produce an oom-pah sound.
   • 2005, Jeannette Walls, The glass castle:

     ...the house filled with the sounds of Mario Lanza, or oompahing tubas […]

   • 1995, Simon Schama, Landscape and memory:

     Beer foamed; champagne bottles stood at attention in silver buckets; military brass oompahed over the hill and the summer air grew heavy with jubilation […]