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Definition of stamping ground in English: stamping ground(North American stomping ground) noun A place where someone regularly spends time; a favourite haunt. 常去的地方，经常出没的处所 they fear that rich trendsetters will encroach on their favourite stamping ground it was my old stamping ground Example sentencesExamples - The guys were clearly loving playing in Wellington, their old stamping ground, and there were plenty of familiar faces from the scene a few years back.
- In a series of interviews and archive footage it recounts how the two strived to save their remote wilderness stomping grounds from hydro-electric dam projects by taking pictures and showing them to the masses.
- He was back in his old stamping ground, Bankstown, in Sydney's south-west, to help celebrate the city's 25th anniversary.
- Then it was over the bridge and back along the coast road to our old stamping ground.
- You feel that, if she could have returned, she would have instantly recognised her old stamping ground.
- Most everyone has a favourite watering hole, a place they flag as their stomping grounds, where preference can extend to the ambience of the room, the company of fellow drinkers, the way a beverage is prepared.
- In pursuit of developing a set of ‘place’ poems, based on my old stamping ground in Wales, I'm doing some lightweight research on the old Bardic poetic forms, just skimming over the material.
- They will then lead the team out alongside England captain David Beckham, who will be making his first appearance at his old stamping ground since his move to Real Madrid.
- Each year a few birds are heard calling in sites away from their main stomping ground - the islands off the west of Scotland and the northern isles of Orkney and Shetland - and it is these birds the RSPB is keen to hear about.
- Cliff was delighted to be back on his old stomping ground and to be greeted by so many people.
- His favourite stomping ground was the Zoo Lake, and for years, 19 to be precise, he delighted the Sunday crowds with his impromptu performances.
- Easter was spent relaxing away from the bustle of retailing but it was also a chance to return to an old stamping ground and see how South West Rocks has changed over the years.
- Nice too to see my old stamping ground, Northland.
- Newtown and Chilwell full-forward Brendan Parker kicked five goals for the victors before making an impressive speech about returning to his old stamping ground.
- When Emanuel does have time to enjoy his surroundings, he takes long walks along the nearby beach, studiously avoiding the golf course, the regular stomping ground of business types.
- Lambert is expected to win his 40th cap on his old stamping ground and was also looking forward to seeing old friends.
- Comic poet John Hegley returned to his old stamping ground last night to kick off the annual Bradford Book Festival.
- Lynch played for Colac last year - on Saturday he kicked seven goals at his old stamping ground.
- The previous month, June, they played three venues in Spain, a favourite stomping ground of Dervish since their epic album ‘Live At Palma’ recorded in Palma de Majorca.
- This area too was the stomping ground of the earliest inhabitants of the peninsula - the Khoi-San hunter-gatherers, ‘strandloopers’ who foraged a living from the sea.
Synonyms hang-out, haunt, meeting place, territory, domain, purlieu, resort, den, retreat, favourite spot informal hidey-hole British informal local, patch, manor
Definition of stamping ground in US English: stamping groundnounˈstampiNG ˌɡroundˈstæmpɪŋ ˌɡraʊnd another term for stomping ground Example sentencesExamples - And where better to start than here in her old East German stamping ground, where the Saxony folk still refer to her warmly as ‘our Katarina’?
- Easterhouse is nearer McLetchie's Pentlands stamping ground than Duncan Smith's Essex constituency.
- His last year of sampling marginally overlaps Boyce's stamping ground, which begins in 1870.
- Working his way from the coast, Joe Wynn finally arrived in the vicinity of his antagonist's stamping ground in the hinterland of Turkey Creek across the border in Western Australia.
- But the Dolly Blues will feel they could have done better after dominating the opening stages of the affair at manager Phil Wilson's old Bower Fold stamping ground.
- Star forward Adrian Morley, making a return to his old Leeds stamping ground after a three-year absence, came off after 29 minutes with what was described as a slight ‘dead leg’.
- Matt's usual stamping ground is in some of the best known house music clubs in Britain.
- Next morning, feeling this may end up being Anna's stamping ground, I wander the cobbled streets that link l' Ile de la Cité to Boulevard St Michel and then Boulevard St Germain.
- Actually, I think I saw Doherty in his Shepherd's Bush stamping ground a few weeks ago, looking dapper in his red tunic.
- Should Manchester United reassert their status against Exeter City, Steve McLaren will take his charges back to his former Old Trafford stamping ground for a crunch 4th Round cup tie.
- In the summer of 2000 Max Stafford-Clark and the actor-playwright Robin Soans revisited Andrea Dunbar's stamping ground in Bradford, and talked to the locals.
- For new GMB Dons skipper Wayne Broadhurst the trip means a quick return to his old West Row stamping ground.
- Driving the quiet country lanes was a pleasure, revealing as it did a landscape that appeared little changed perhaps even since it was Shakespeare's stamping ground.
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