stomp-down adj.
a general intensifer, complete, utter; also as adv.
Orlando Sentinel (FL) 8 Apr. 1/6: Not since the days of [...] the turpentine ‘farm’ have the people of Orlando [...] had an opportunity to hear and see a typical stomp-down negro show . | ||
[ | ‘Hectic Harlem’ in N.Y. Amsterdam News 8 Feb. Section 2: STOMP DOWN. – An enjoyable affair]. | |
Montgomery Advertiser (AL) 9 Apr. 4/5: Not only did he make himself an Alabama political reporter, but he made a stomp down good one. | ||
(con. 1920s–30s) Youngblood (1956) 75: Mrs. Cross isn’t what you call a stomp down cracker. She used to be a Yankee [...] from the north. | ||
Howard Street 153: I’m stomp-down serious, man. | ||
Airtight Willie and Me 36: She was coldly sweeping her eyes over the crowd like the stomp down security guard Phil had cracked she was. | ||
Flyboy in the Buttermilk (1992) 19: At their Peppermint Lounge gig [...] Blood, Weston and Ali shattered stompdown funk into skronking shards, which is cool I guess. | ‘Knee Deep in Blood Ulmer’ in||
Monster (1994) 298: So as not to be in the way of what I was sure was going to be some stomp-down action. |
In compounds
(US black) the hardest working woman in a pimp’s ‘stable’ of prostitutes.
‘Death Row’ in Life (1976) 118: Moose [...] turned her into a stomp-down whore. | et al.||
‘Badman Dan and Two-Gun Green’ in Life (1976) 127: When out of the crowd and onto the floor / Came a bitch known to all as a stomp-down whore. | et al.||
Howard Street 137: I’m talking about a stomp-down sophisticated thoroughbred whore like my woman. | ||
Juba to Juve 449: Stomp down [woman] adj. (1960s–1970s) a pimp’s term for his hardest-working prostitute. |