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.”
4 Comments
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 1:37 pm
In all fairness to amNY, they didn’t come up with tamp on their own. They simply stole it from the Associated Press.
Wednesday, August 22, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Makes sense. Isn’t everything in amNY cribbed from other sources?
Thursday, August 23, 2007 at 12:32 am
Maybe they meant to say “on” instead of “down”.
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