The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 8 letter word STUFFING
I've seen this crossword clue in Financial Times
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More clues leading to the result STUFFING
- Heavy defeat to be had in Turkey?
- What choirs do about sound of violent shoving?
- Packaging from gifts fun to unwrap
- Packing fun gifts for dispatch
- Beating an investment in Turkey?
- Tough, I hear, to serenade around, eating gluttonously
- Part of Christmas dinner down inside sofa, perhaps?
- Thumping university fellows engaged in fraud
- Uni fellows to stop member of Police jamming
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The straight part
We know that "Thumping" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case thumping = stuffing.The cryptic/wordplay part
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What does STUFFING mean?
STUFFING verb- To fill by packing or crowding something into; to cram with something; to load to excess.
- To fill a space with (something) in a compressed manner.
- To fill with seasoning.
- To load goods into (a container) for transport.
- (used in the passive) To sate.
- (pronominal) To eat, especially in a hearty or greedy manner.
- To break; to destroy.
- To sexually penetrate.
- (mildly vulgar, often imperative) Used to contemptuously dismiss or reject something. See also stuff it.
- To heavily defeat or get the better of.
- To cut off another competitor in a race by disturbing his projected and committed racing line (trajectory) by an abrupt manoeuvre.
- To preserve a dead bird or other animal by filling its skin.
- To obstruct, as any of the organs; to affect with some obstruction in the organs of sense or respiration.
- To form or fashion by packing with the necessary material.
- To crowd with facts; to cram the mind of; sometimes, to crowd or fill with false or idle tales or fancies.
- To compress (a file or files) in the StuffIt format, to be unstuffed later.
- The matter used to stuff hollow objects such as pillows and saddles.
- Any of many food items used to stuff another.
- A mixture of oil and tallow used in softening and dressing leather.
- The insertion of many copies of a word into a web page in an attempt to increase its search engine ranking.
- A tax loophole whereby a corporation acquires property that will result in a loss of revenue, purely in order to reduce its tax liability.