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pumping

verbnouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpʌmpɪŋ//

The act by which something is pumped.

verb

  1. 1

    Also a form of pumppresent participle and gerund of pump

noun

  1. 1

    The act by which something is pumped.

    Focus on the number of pumpings per day, not the time between pumpings.

  2. 2

    The act of injecting silicone into the body to try to achieve a fuller or curvier look.

Forms

plural
pumpings
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).