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stamping ground

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stampingground (pluralstamping grounds)

  1. Ahabituallyfrequented place; ahaunt orhangout.
    • 1890,William Booth,In Darkest England and the Way Out‎[1]:
      Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favouritestamping ground for these vagrants.
    • 1913 August,Jack London, chapter XXIII, inJohn Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.:The Century Co.,→OCLC:
      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 favouritestamping grounds.
    • 1915 December 4 –1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, inThe Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.:A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917,→OCLC:
      In theirstamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures. The little monkeys knew them well, often coming close to chatter and frolic about them.

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place one likes to go

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