verb
- playing music with a repetitive bass rhythm, especially on a tuba or similar brass instrument
Usage: informal
Examples
- The tuba player was oompahing loudly at the Oktoberfest celebration.
- We could hear the band oompahing from across the park.
- The brass section kept oompahing throughout the polka.
- He spent the afternoon oompahing with the local German band.
- The musicians were oompahing to the delight of the dancing crowd.