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Yop vs Yomp - What's the difference?

yop | yomp |

As nouns the difference between yop and yomp

is that yop is a person employed under the youth opportunities programme in britain in the 1980s while yomp is a long-distance march carrying full kit.

As an interjection yop

is affirmative.

As a verb yomp is

to make a strenuous long-distance march.

yop

English

Initialism

(Initialism) (head)
  • Youth Opportunity Program, a British youth employment programme of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Introduced by the government but popularly associated with Thatcherism. Replaced by the YTS.

    • yomp

    English

    (wikipedia yomp)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A long-distance march carrying full kit.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To make a strenuous long-distance march.
  • * 1989 , Derek Oakley, The Falklands Military Machine? , page 155
    • Whilst 3 Para and 45 Commando yomped across East Falkland, accompanied by the two Troops of Blues and Royals, 42 Commando were helicoptered forward to Mount Kent and 2 Para to Bluff Cove.
  • * 2001 , Peter F. Hamilton, "The Suspect Genome", part 2
    • She gestured out of the window wall. "Unless it was a real professional who yomped in over the fields, the only way to get here is to drive through the village. And believe me, that's not so easy."
  • * 2006 , Tim Moore, Travels with My Donkey? , page 133
    • He was French, and spoke in damning terms of the 'contre-la-montre' walkers who yomped' in before lunch-time and ' yomped out again before dawn

    Synonyms

    * (to make a march) trek

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