oompah

verb

oompah

verb
1

To produce an oom-pah sound.

  • ...the house filled with the sounds of Mario Lanza, or oompahing tubas […]2005, Jeannette Walls, The glass castle:
  • Beer foamed; champagne bottles stood at attention in silver buckets; military brass oompahed over the hill and the summer air grew heavy with jubilation […]1995, Simon Schama, Landscape and memory:

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