The extra power that is needed to successfully acomplish an extreamly demanding physical skill.
First used in a trampoline class to convey to the athlete the amount of effort she was to employ in her attempt to learn a new skill.
She was successful!
Come on Germyndina, you can do it!
You justneed to give it more!
Give it some ..."GAHUMPHA!"
Also gesumph or gesumpf, said to have come into the British property business from the second-hand car trade in the 1970s. originally means to swindle, cheat or steal, now means to outbid (peculiar to the English and Welsh housing market). Ultimately derived from a German word meaning to put into a swamp or, in the modern idiom, to dump in the shit. first recorded in English in 1928
1) To be ripped off by a greedy real estate agent. Usually when the price for
real estate or land is raised to a higher price than was verbally agreed on before.
2) The sound made by two Hippopotamuses fucking in a swamp.
1) I got gazumped when I tried to buy that house - after we agreed on a price, they changed the contract.
2) I saw a documentary about hippos gazumping each other..
1. "He went galumphing back." (Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-glass and What Alice Found There")
2. The little kid went galumphing to his mother to show her something.
Nickname given to bales of marijuana thrown overboard or out of airplanes. Origin is reportedly from members of the US Coast Guard in the area of Southern Florida.