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bum's rush en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

* First use appears c. 1911. See cite below. * Although Baumes law has been suggested as the origin, bum's rush was in use more than a decade before that law was passed.

Meanings

1. (US, idiomatic, slang) The forcible ejection of someone, such as a bum or a hobo, from an establishment.
   • "I didnt' think you fellows'd put the bum's rush onto me," he complained, "I ain't no bum." 1911 March, Wm. Hamilton Osborne, “Blowing the Crowd”, in Ambition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help, volume 9, number 8:
   • It seems that the board appointed to look into alleged shortcomings of leftish Council leaders didn't like the "observers" who were brought along and decided to give them the bum's rush. 1948, Daily Labor Report - Issues 181-210, page 326:
   • Early last September, some fellow beekeepers reported that the females in their bee colonies had already given the bum's rush to the males, the drones, kicking them out in the cold. 2013, Jack Mingo, Bees Make the Best Pets, page 81:
   • But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is a bum's rush!” 2013, Chris Crowley, Jennifer Sacheck, Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book:
   • At that point Duck got the bum’s rush from the organising Miss Bowen[.] 1982, Paul Radley, My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page 96:

Forms

Relateds

bum-rush · bum rush

Translations (2)

fr course à l'échalote (to be forcibly ejected) · fr débarquement (to be forcibly ejected)

wikipedia: Baumes law