Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun tamp

1 sense of tamp

Sense 1
tamp, tamper, tamping bar -- (a tool for tamping (e.g., for tamping tobacco into a pipe bowl or a charge into a drill hole etc.))
       => tool -- (an implement used in the practice of a vocation)

Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb tamp

1 sense of tamp

Sense 1
tamp down, tamp, pack -- (press down tightly; "tamp the coffee grinds in the container to make espresso")
       => compress, compact, pack together -- (make more compact by or as if by pressing; "compress the data")