Meaning

2 senses

  1. (informal, transitive)To force one's way into; to crash.

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  2. (informal, transitive)To forcibly overpower a person.

Translations

1 languages
Русский
To force one's way into; to crash:

Origin

Usage occurred May 4th, 1939 in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake meaning rapidly rushing towar

Usage occurred May 4th, 1939 in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake meaning rapidly rushing towards and crashing against ("... came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another, with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow,").

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Forms

bum-rushes, bum-rushing, bum-rushed, bum-rushed
Base formbum-rush · to bum-rush
3rd person singularbum-rushes
Present participlebum-rushing
Past simplebum-rushed
Past participlebum-rushed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theybum-rush
he, she, itbum-rushes

Past simpleLesson

all personsbum-rushed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave bum-rushed
he, she, ithas bum-rushed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill bum-rush

Word family

1 related words
Relatedbum's rush

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bumB2bumblebumblebeebummer
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