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senoritafishcallithump \KAL-uh-thump\ noun
: a noisy boisterous band or parade
Example sentence:
We were eager to get to the annual callithump on New Year's Day, so we bundled up the kids, filled thermoses with hot chocolate, and set off for the parade route.
Did you know?
"Callithump" is an Americanism that came into being in the 19th century. Back then, "callithumpians" were boisterous roisterers who had their own makeshift New Year's parade. Their band instruments consisted of crude noisemakers — pots pounded on, tin horns tooted, and cowbells clanged to ring in the New Year. The antecedent of "callithumpians" is an 18th-century English dialect term for another noisy group, the "Gallithumpians," who made a rumpus on election days in southern England. "Callithump" has managed to gain a fair amount of respectability since the old days — now it can refer to a good old-fashioned parade, with clowns and twirlers ... and euphonious marching bands.
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: a noisy boisterous band or parade
Example sentence:
We were eager to get to the annual callithump on New Year's Day, so we bundled up the kids, filled thermoses with hot chocolate, and set off for the parade route.
Did you know?
"Callithump" is an Americanism that came into being in the 19th century. Back then, "callithumpians" were boisterous roisterers who had their own makeshift New Year's parade. Their band instruments consisted of crude noisemakers — pots pounded on, tin horns tooted, and cowbells clanged to ring in the New Year. The antecedent of "callithumpians" is an 18th-century English dialect term for another noisy group, the "Gallithumpians," who made a rumpus on election days in southern England. "Callithump" has managed to gain a fair amount of respectability since the old days — now it can refer to a good old-fashioned parade, with clowns and twirlers ... and euphonious marching bands.
courtesy of <a href="http://www.merriam-webster.com>merriam-webster.com</a>
