Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. to have sexual intercourse.

1594		Lyly Mother Bombie V iii: What they doe This Night, In delight, Does thump away sorrow.
c.1610		Shakespeare Winter’s Tale IV iii: He has the prettiest love-songs for maids; [...] with such delicate burthens of dildos and fadings, ‘jump her and thump her.’.
1655		Mercurius Fumigosus 40 28 Feb.–7 Mar. 317: But yet the Weaver was too blame, / To shoot his shuttle as he came / Within her Loom, and in a ditch, / Did warp his web, and thump her breech.
a.1661		‘A Vindication of the Rump’ in Rump Poems and Songs (1662) II 59: When you are dallying with a young Maid / Would you not her buttocks bethump?
1691		Tribe of Levi 16: Hophnie of old laid down his Rampant Whore, And thump’t her Carcass at the Temple-Door.
1719		in D’Urfey Pills to Purge Melancholy VI 296: With a thump thump thump, and knick knack knock, to do her Business rarely.
1793		Bacchanalian Mag. 67: There’s Bess thinks little of her trouble, / Tho’ Neddy beats her like a stock; / But from him she soon would double — / If once he ceas’d to thump her Lock.
1989		P. Munro Sl. U.

2. (also thumpify) to defeat heavily, esp. in battle or, more recently, in sport.

1593		Shakespeare Richard III V iii: These bastard Britaines, whom our Fathers Have in their owne land beaten, bobb’d, and thump’d.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 118: Mutt’ring to himself he cries / If you, sir jove, had not rid rusty, / But to your word been true and trusty. / I should have thumpify’d, most surely, / This cuckold-making rascal.
a.1790		C. Dibdin ‘Patrick O’Row’ in Collection of Songs II 53: Though they thumped the three Birmingham men, / Says I, my lads little I value you.
1806		G. Colman Yngr John Bull III ii: If he don’t behave himself to the young cratur, I’ll bounce in, and thump him blue.
1838		J.C. Neal Charcoal Sketches (1865) 45: I’ll thump him, Minty, I will — feed me on hay, if I dont.
1997		C. Newland Scholar 257: To almost get t’ump up in the street proves some fucked-up macho principle eh?
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Thump (verb) To put down, show up or best someone.

3. (US black) to fight, usu. of a gang.

[1908		E.S. Sorenson Quinton’s Rouseabout and other Stories 47: Then the boys would set after him, vowing to thump him into a mummy if they caught him].
1968		‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2.
1972		D. Claerbaut Black Jargon in White America 83: thump v. to fight; scuffle.
1980		E. Folb Runnin’ Down Some Lines 78: Nex’ thang, they thumpin’.
2001		(con. 1975–6) E. Little Steel Toes 10: What they should do is let Moppa and Liplock do the thumpin’.