tamp, tamper, tamping bar
(noun) a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.)
meddle, tamper
(verb) intrude in other people’s affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; “Don’t meddle in my affairs!”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
tamper (plural tampers)
A person or thing that tamps.
A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
(rail) A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
Synonym: tamping machine
An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.
tamper (third-person singular simple present tampers, present participle tampering, simple past and past participle tampered)
(intransitive) To make unauthorized or improper alterations, sometimes causing deliberate damage; to meddle (with something).
Synonym: interfere
(intransitive) To try to influence someone, usually in an illegal or devious way; to try to deal (with someone).
(dated) To meddle (with something) in order to corrupt or pervert it.
(obsolete) To involve oneself (in a plot, scheme, etc.).
(obsolete) To attempt to practise or administer something (especially medicine) without sufficient knowledge or qualifications.
(in professional sports) To discuss future contracts with a player, against league rules.
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Source: Wiktionary
Tamp"er, n.
1. One who tamps; specifically, one who prepares for blasting, by filling the hole in which the charge is placed.
2. An instrument used in tamping; a tamping iron.
Tam"per, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Tampered; p. pr. & vb. n. Tampering.] Etym: [A corruption of temper.]
1. To meddle; to be busy; to try little experiments; as, to tamper with a disease. 'T is dangerous tampering with a muse. Roscommon.
2. To meddle so as to alter, injure, or vitiate a thing.
3. To deal unfairly; to practice secretly; to use bribery. Others tampered For Fleetwood, Desborough, and Lambert. Hudibras.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
17 April 2025
(noun) a porous mass of interlacing fibers that forms the internal skeleton of various marine animals and usable to absorb water or any porous rubber or cellulose product similarly used
According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.
