tamping

/ ˈtæmpɪŋ /

adjective

1. dialect.
   postpositive very angry

Word History and Origins

Origin of tamping¹

see tamp ¹

Example Sentences

Tamping down Mexico’s violence is a major challenge for President Claudia Sheinbaum, who took office Oct.

From Los Angeles Times

Many of the profits wound up in the state capital of Culiacán, a city of a million where gangsters have enjoyed a certain respect for their contributions to the economy, public works and charities — and for tamping down on common street crime.

From Los Angeles Times

Interventionists are still doing what they’ve always done: preventing retaliatory violence by tamping down rumors and connecting gang members with social services — all while grappling with the traumas of their past lives.

From Los Angeles Times

After JFK was murdered in 1963, the British broadcaster Jonathan Miller viewed the rolling postassassination TV news coverage and found that the medium had been “forced … into a brief maturity,” tamping down the typical “greedy squalling” before “the commercials came yapping back on Tuesday.”

From Slate

Another is tamping down the expression of PKA.

From Science Daily