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Twomp vs Tromp - What's the difference?

twomp | tromp |

As nouns the difference between twomp and tromp

is that twomp is (us|slang|neologism) 20 us dollars' worth of marijuana while tromp is a blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

As a verb tromp is

(chiefly|us) to tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.

twomp

English

Alternative forms

* twamp

Noun

(en noun)
  • (US, slang, neologism) 20 U.S. dollars' worth of marijuana.
  • *{{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, date=July 21, author="TSmith6235", title= Re: Those new Partnership for a drug-free America commercials... , newsgroup=alt.drugs.pot citation
    • , passage=However, last night we scored a twomp (20 sack) of this extremely chronic weed, and we hotboxed Shaun's car...I was GONE. Just out of it. Almost uncomfortably stoned.}}
  • *{{quote-newsgroup, year=1998, date=August 23, author=Alexander Carlton, title=Re: Doser aka A. Carlton vs. WUZ , newsgroup=rec.music.hip-hop citation
    • , passage=
  • *{{quote-newsgroup, year=1999, date=February 13, author="Michelle", title=Re: shitty tips in the past week, newsgroup=alt.pizza.delivery.drivers citation
    • , passage=[replying to: Resell value is very high for weed...mmmmm] You're telling me. $20 a twomp ? Fucking outrageous.}}
  • *{{quote-newsgroup, year=2000, date=January 13, author="BilG4", title=Re: How long does a $20 sack last you?, newsgroup=rec.drugs.cannabis citation
    • , passage=HAHAHAHAHAHA i (SIC) get at leat (SIC) 6 grams in a twomp
  • (US, slang) Twenty.
  • *{{quote-newsgroup, year=1999, date=April 7, author=Edmund Lee, title=uop's banquet , newsgroup=ucd.org.fraternity.a-phi-o.d citation
    • , passage=it's only gonna cost a twomp , right? hella cheap.}}

    References

    * Tom Gally, twomp'', according to ''Berkeley High School Slang Dictionary , North Atlantic Books, quoted Feb. 2004.

    tromp

    English

    Etymology 1

    1892, variant of (tramp).

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (chiefly, US) To tread heavily, especially to crush underfoot.
  • :Mother yelled at my brothers for tromping through her flowerbed.
  • :The hoodlums were tromping pumpkins they had stolen from their neighbors' Halloween displays.
  • To utterly defeat an opponent.
  • :The team had been tromped by their cross-town rivals, and the players were embarrassed to show their faces in school the next day.
    • Synonyms
    * (tread heavily) march, stamp, stomp, tramp, trample * (utterly defeat) clobber, decimate, rout, whip

    Etymology 2

    (etyl) trombe, trompe, a waterspout, a water-blowing machine. Compare trump, a trumpet.

    Alternative forms

    * trombe, trompe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A blowing apparatus in which air, drawn into the upper part of a vertical tube through side holes by a stream of water within, is carried down with the water into a box or chamber below which it is led to a furnace.

    • References

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