stamping ground

stamping ground

English

Noun

stamping ground (plural stamping grounds)

1. A habitually frequented place; a haunt or hangout.
   • 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out‎:

     Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favourite stamping ground for these vagrants.

   • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., OCLC 264225:

     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.

   • 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, OCLC 182260:

     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.

Synonyms

• stomping ground

Coordinate terms

• hunting ground

Translations

place one likes to go

Arabic: please add this translation if you can Chinese: Mandarin: 愛去的地方／爱去的地方 (àiqù de dìfang) Czech: please add this translation if you can Danish: hjemmebane (da) Dutch: geliefkoosde plaats, vaste stek c Finnish: lempipaikka French: terrain favori m German: Lieblingsaufenthalt m, Lieblingsort (de) m, Lieblingsplatz (de) m, Lieblingsstelle (de) f Hungarian: kedvenc tartózkodási hely Italian: ritrovo (it) m, terreno battuto m Japanese: たまり場 (tamariba) Korean: please add this translation if you can Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can Maori: kainga waewae Portuguese: lugar predileto m Russian: излю́бленное ме́сто n (izljúblennoje mésto) Spanish: lugar preferido m Swedish: favorittillhåll Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

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