bum-rush en · VERB
Etymology
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,").
Meanings
- (informal, transitive) To force one's way into; to crash.
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(informal, transitive) To forcibly overpower a person.
It had what they call a safety space[…] He was trying to get into it, but he got bum rushed so fast that he didn't get into that.
2026 January 3, Donald Trumphttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-reveals-venezuelas-maduro-captured-fortress-like-house-he-got-bum-rushed-so-fast2015 August 21, KGWhttp://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2015/08/21/oregon-soldier-takes-down-gunman--french-train/32162823/ That gave them the opportunity to bum-rush [the gunman]
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bum-rushed | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bum-rushed | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| bumrush | alternative | lexicographic | |
| bum's rush | alternative | lexicographic | |
| bum-rushing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| bum rush | alternative | lexicographic | |
| bum-rushes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic |
Relateds
Translations (1)
ru вламываться (To force one's way into; to crash)