stump it

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stump it (third-person singular simple present stumps it, present participle stumping it, simple past and past participle stumped it)

1. (slang, dated, idiomatic) To go on foot; hence, to run away; to escape.
   • 1841, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Night and Morning:

     Stump it , my cove ; that's a Bow Street runner

2. (slang, US, dated) To make electioneering speeches.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “stump it”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)