thump

1. (transitive, chiefly UK) To hit (someone or something) as if to make a thump.Examples: "These bastard Bretons, whom our fathers / Have in their own land beaten, bobb'd, and thump'd."; "Kasper Schmeichel brilliantly denied Marouane Chamakh before Bacary Sagna thumped home a second, though Bradley Johnson's screamer halved the deficit."UKtransitive

2. (transitive) To cause to make a thumping sound.Examples: "The cat thumped its tail in irritation."transitive

3. (intransitive) To thud or pound.intransitive

4. (intransitive) To throb with a muffled rhythmic sound.Examples: "Dance music thumped from the nightclub entrance."; "Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee."intransitive

5. (intransitive) (of a rabbit) to hit the ground with the back legs to signal agitation.intransitive