waffle stomper

English

Alternative forms

• waffle-stomper
• wafflestomper

Noun

waffle stomper (plural waffle stompers)

1. (footwear, informal) A type of heavy hiking boot with ridged soles
   • 2000, Jack Lopez, Snapping Lines, →ISBN:

     He's got ocean blue eyes and blond crew-cut hair, and he wears old double-knit pants with waffle stompers.

   • 2007, Jennifer Solow, The Booster: A Novel, →ISBN, page 17:

     Instead, the Brooklyn-born Baum focuses his efforts more narrowly—on cowboy boots: horned-back alligator cowboy boots from Billy Martin's that he merrily places on his desk, right over left, so that his entire body is eclipsed by the foreshortened soles of these well-shined waffle stompers.

   • 2011, Elizabeth Ann Scarborough, Cleopatra 7.2, →ISBN, page 101:

     The effect was spoiled slightly by the waffle stompers on his feet, but she'd heard somewhere he lived in Scotland most of the year now, so maybe he was what they called a hill walker.

2. One who waffle stomps.

See also

• roach stomper