ump
See also: UMP
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ump (plural umps)
- (sports, informal) An umpire.
- 2006, Eli Attie and John Wells, The West Wing, season 7, episode 17 “Election Day Part II”:
- If you take it to court, you're the guy who screams at the ump ’cause they don't like the call at the plate.
- 2006, Eli Attie and John Wells, The West Wing, season 7, episode 17 “Election Day Part II”:
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ump (third-person singular simple present umps, present participle umping, simple past and past participle umped)
- (transitive, intransitive) To act as an umpire (in).
- 1982, Stephen King, Survivor Type:
- On the block when we were growing up we called him Ronnie the Enforcer because he umped all the stickball games and reffed the hockey.
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to act as an ump
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