stamping ground
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.18 in modern English
21
Scrabble Score
14
Letters
3
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A habitually frequented place; a haunt or hangout.
Example Sentences
- "Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favourite stamping ground for these vagrants."
- "Had I been out on the adventure-path, I should as a matter of course have been drinking. For that is the pity of the adventure-path, which is one of John Barleycorn's favourite stamping grounds."
- "In their stamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures. The little monkeys knew them well, often coming close to chatter and frolic about them."
- "Only once was Judge Taylor ever seen at a dead standstill in open court, and the Cunninghams stopped him. Old Sarum, their stamping grounds, was populated by two families separate and apart in the beginning, but unfortunately bearing the same name."