amNY Watch: Using the Thesaurus Function
From today’s amNewYork:
tamp [tamp] - v. 1. to force in or down by repeated, rather light, strokes: He tamped the tobacco in his pipe. 2. (in blasting) to fill (a drilled hole) with earth or the like after the charge has been inserted.
No. I don’t think that works here.
Also, I don’t think most readers of amNewYork have ever even heard the word “tamp.”
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August 22nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
says:In all fairness to amNY, they didn’t come up with tamp on their own. They simply stole it from the Associated Press.
August 22nd, 2007 at 2:50 pm
says:Makes sense. Isn’t everything in amNY cribbed from other sources?
August 23rd, 2007 at 12:32 am
says:Maybe they meant to say “on” instead of “down”.