thulp

v. to overcome in a contest, sport, or fight; to beat, drub, or subdue; to finish off or exhaust. Subjects: English, India

Editorial Note: Usually transitive: to thulp someone or something. Etymological Note: Often said to be a blend of “thump to a pulp.”

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Citations: 1991 [G. Harikumar] Usenet: soc.culture.indian (Apr. 20) “Politics & Religion”: Most have expressed fervent hopes that the BJP would get badly thulped in the forthcoming elections. 1992 [Paul C. Chemmanoor] Usenet: soc.culture.indian (Aug. 22) “Kaduk’s Revenge”: Kaduk was explaining to Pepperoni how he would capture this or the other miscreants and punish them by “Thulping” them and breaking their bones. 1999 New Zealand in India (India) (Oct.-Nov.) “Kiwi nets, lost in the city and small town fame”: Instead we found a Baskin Robbins store and I made my bad throat worse by thulping mint and coffee ice cream. 2001 [phunti] Tulleeho.com (New Delhi, India) (Oct. 23) “Off beat places to get smashed in”: Talking of kashmir,one of the best places to get thulped is a housboat on dal lake.… you let the houseboat owner know what you wanted to eat in the next meal and they made it. being a veg had some downsides but still they rose magnificently to the task. liquor is freely available in the valley. 2002 Vinay Kamat Times of India (June 1) “The Serial Killer waits to draw first blood”: In Italy, unknown Cameroon thulped Maradona’s boys 12 years ago in the World Cup opener. *2004 Saras 97—IIT Madras (Apr. 4) “IIT M Slang” (in IIT Madras, India): Thulp—Comes from “THUmp into puLP.” To beat the shiit out of something. 2004 [lakesidey] Coffee time (India) (Oct. 11) “Strenuous Sunday”: I went for a quiz (and was thulped in embarrassing fashion after making the finals with inordinate ease). *2004 Ganga Hostel IIT Madras (Dec. 20) “Lingo……and all that ‘fart’” (in Madras, India): Thulp: extremely widely connotative word—from physically beat to mentally exhaust with everything in between. 2005 [bhooshaniyer] Usenet: comp.dsp (May 5) “Really OT: Ann Coulter Heckler Responds!”: Basicaly this was a story of a University of Texas Student Ajay Raaj heckling Ann Coulter during a Q/A session and getting thulped by cops.

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