"bum-rush" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: bum-rushes [present, singular, third-person], bum-rushing [participle, present], bum-rushed [participle, past], bum-rushed [past], bumrush [alternative], bum rush [alternative], bum's rush [alternative]
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,"). Head templates: {{en-verb}} bum-rush (third-person singular simple present bum-rushes, present participle bum-rushing, simple past and past participle bum-rushed)
  1. (transitive, informal) To force one's way into; to crash. Tags: informal, transitive Translations (To force one's way into; to crash): вламываться (vlamyvatʹsja) (Russian)
    Sense id: en-bum-rush-en-verb-eJHBBh6T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Terms with Russian translations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 93 7 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 94 6 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 95 5 Disambiguation of Terms with Russian translations: 92 8 Disambiguation of "To force one's way into; to crash": 100 0
  2. (transitive, informal) To forcibly overpower a person. Tags: informal, transitive
    Sense id: en-bum-rush-en-verb-Q9071V9s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bum's rush

Inflected forms

Alternative forms

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