"New Word: "Padumps" (Pronounced, Pa - Dumps) The thingy's that go in your ears with the I-Pod system, that 'dump' content into your ears, padumps.
Vicki-Lynn, Toronto, August 26, 2007"
Since then, it has come to my attention that it is a term used in music, as exampled in this Google search result:
Boolean search: "padumps computer science"
1 Result:
[PDF] FSU’s new president—on the job
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degrees in computer science from. FSU and succeeded in their. careers. ..... “padump-padumps” and other sounds. imitating trombones and kettle drums. ...
www.fsu.edu/~fstime/FS-Times/febmar03.pdf - Similar pages
This took about 5 minutes of work -- along the thread of "beat".
The kicker to solving the puzzle was the algorithm, computer science.
As far as I understand, in the dictionary makers world -- one more reference and it's "officially" a word!
Etymology.
(please excuse any cashed pages on the Internet with a 'bug' label)
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