waffle-stomp
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Verb
[edit]waffle-stomp (third-person singular simple present waffle-stomps, present participle waffle-stomping, simple past and past participle waffle-stomped)
- (intransitive) To hike while wearing waffle stompers.
- 1995 March 6, Don Young (quoted), Angela Bouwsma, “The word according to a weighty Republican”, in High Country News[1]:
- That's what the environmentalists - the self-centered bunch, the waffle-stomping, Harvard-graduating intellectual bunch of idiots that don't understand that they're leading this country into environmental disaster.
- 1996, Chevy Trucks, “Take A Hike! America's Hiking Trails”, in Snow Country, volume 9, number 3, →ISSN, page 90:
- An annual rainfall of 100 inches or more creates a tangle of vegetation in the adjacent King Mountains, but the coast is clear for waffle-stomping.
- 2020 July 30, Pat Neal, “Wildlife: A Buggy Time of Year”, in Forks Forum[2]:
- As the summer progresses, we are faced with another insect pest worse than all the others combined, the bald-faced hornets and yellow-jackets. Right about now the hornets and yellow jackets are approaching their prime. Their underground nests along hiking trails are getting mighty tired of getting stomped on by waffle-stomping granola crunchers.
- 2022 September 12, Andy Zahn, “I became a cyborg backpacker, and it completely changed my hiking experience”, in Digital Trends[3]:
- Every year, people disappear into the wilderness and are never seen alive again. Admittedly, these unfortunate folks make up a small percentage of the waffle-stomping multitudes, but the dangers are very real.
- (transitive, slang) To beat decisively.
- Synonyms: curb stomp, own
- 1999 August 2, Dana Seero, “Another Ficht bites the dust...”, in rec.boats[4] (Usenet):
- ...which doesn't matter much for automotive profits, since 6 or 7 of the top 10 selling vehicles are classified as trucks, where the US dominates. In fact, American trucks waffle-stomped the Japanese manufacturers in trucks.
- 2005 March 1, Krusty, “I'm gonna mark for Hillary Clinton in 2008...”, in rec.sport.pro-wrestling[5] (Usenet):
- Do I think the Republicans are doing a better job of embracing minnority[sic] and women voters? God damn right. Do I think Condi would waffle stomp Hillary in ANY contest? Any day of the week. I think she's MUCH better "person" than Hillary, and is *infinitely* more "electable" than the Lightening Rod Formerly Known As Hillary.
- 2016 October 14, Mike Bianchi, “Splish Splash, UCF homecoming tradition is at top of Orlando sports bucket list!”, in Orlando Sentinel[8]:
- On the real winners of the contentious negotiations between Florida and LSU: "The cupcakes that got paid without having to get waffle-stomped!"
- 2017 March 17, Nick Santangelo, “Blizzard Working to Reduce Draws in Overwatch”, in Twinfinite[9]:
- Kaplan’s post came in response to a fan complaining that he’d "rather get waffle stomped" than waste 20 minutes playing the competitive shooter without a winner being declared.
- 2019 June 13, Mike Redmond, “Justin Bieber Was Just Playing About Fighting Tom Cruise, You Know How He Do (Please Don't Hurt Him)”, in Pajiba[10]:
- In a shocking turn of events that no one could’ve possibly seen coming, Justin Bieber has decided that he no longer wishes to fulfill humanity’s dream of watching him get systematically waffle-stomped to death by Tom Cruise after challenging the actor to a fight on Twitter.
- 2020 November 25, Nate Asper, “The Buffalo Bills Outsider: A Time for Thanks”, in Buffalo Fanatics Network[11], archived from the original on 9 October 2022:
- Seriously, Matt, you just got waffle stomped by a team starting a former XFL quarterback.
- Alternative spelling of waffle stomp (“while showering, to step on feces to push it down a drain”)