From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishstump speech/speakerstump speech/speakerAmerican English a speech made by a politician who is travelling around in order to gain political support, or the politician who gives this speech →stumpExamples from the Corpusstump speech/speaker• Pete Magowan should have brought Clark back to give stump speeches about the horrors of Candlestick.• Voinovich, 59, is described as a roll-up-the-sleeves fiscalmanager and a good stump speaker.• His strident 30-minute stump speech was interrupted only a couple of times with politeapplause.• No soapbox, no stump speech, no calling out, in a beer-barrel voice, to hit the bricks.• They campaigned for Hardaway while the Adelman ticketdelivered a persuasivestump speech.• Clinton does not include his pro-choice stand in his standardstump speech, either.• Confronted by the realities of office, even young men forget the carefreepromises of the stump speech.