stamping ground

English

Noun

stamping ground (plural stamping grounds)

1. A habitually frequented place; a haunt or hangout.
   • 1890, William Booth, In Darkest England and the Way Out‎^[1]:

     Em and Mat keep the corridor without their room beautifully clean, and so it has become an especial favourite stamping ground for these vagrants.

   • 1913 August, Jack London, chapter XXIII, in John Barleycorn, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC:

     Had I been out on the adventure-path, I should as a matter of course have been drinking. For that is the pity of the adventure-path, which is one of John Barleycorn's favourite stamping grounds.

   • 1915 December 4 – 1916 January 8, Edgar Rice Burroughs, chapter X, in The Son of Tarzan, Chicago, Ill.: A[lexander] C[aldwell] McClurg & Co., published March 1917, →OCLC:

     In their stamping grounds in the jungle the three were familiar figures. The little monkeys knew them well, often coming close to chatter and frolic about them.

Synonyms

• stomping ground

Coordinate terms

• hunting ground

Translations

place one likes to go

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 愛去的地方／爱去的地方 (àiqù de dìfang)

• Czech: please add this translation if you can
• Danish: hjemmebane (da)
• Dutch: geliefkoosde plaats, vaste stek c
• Finnish: lempipaikka
• French: terrain favori m
• German: Lieblingsaufenthalt m, Lieblingsort (de) m, Lieblingsplatz (de) m, Lieblingsstelle (de) f, Tummelplatz (de) m
• Hungarian: kedvenc tartózkodási hely
• Italian: ritrovo (it) m, terreno battuto m
• Japanese: たまり場 (tamariba)
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• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: kainga waewae
• Portuguese: lugar predileto m
• Russian: излю́бленное ме́сто n (izljúblennoje mésto)
• Spanish: lugar preferido m
• Swedish: favorittillhåll
• Vietnamese: chỗ hay lui tới

Further reading

• stamping ground, stomping ground at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.