lamp

Etymology

From Middle English laumpe, lampe, from Old French lampe (“lamp, light”), from Latin lampas (“torch, lamp, light”), from Ancient Greek λαμπάς (lampás, “torch, lamp, beacon, light, meteor”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₂p- (“to shine”). Cognate with Lithuanian lópė (“light”), Welsh llachar (“bright”). Displaced native Old English lēohtfæt (literally “light container”).

noun

1. A device that generates heat, light or other radiation. Especially an electric light bulb.
2. A device containing oil, burnt through a wick for illumination; an oil lamp.
3. A piece of furniture holding one or more electric light sockets.

verb

1. (UK, slang) To hit, clout, belt, wallop.
   All for the pleasure of lamping a twat in the face. 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 337
2. (UK, Ireland) To hunt at night using a lamp, during which bright lights are used to dazzle the hunted animal or to attract insects for capture.
3. (slang, US) To hang out or chill; to do nothing in particular.
   I'm in my Flavmobile cold lamping. I took a G upstate cold camping. To the Poconos, we call a hideaways. A bag of franks and a bag of Frito-Lays. 1988-06-28, “Cold Lampin' With Flavor” (track 4), in It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, performed by Public Enemy
4. To make into a table lamp, said of a vase or urn, etc.