"bum-rush" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: bum-rushes [present, singular, third-person], bum-rushing [participle, present], bum-rushed [participle, past], bum-rushed [past]
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) To force one's way into; to crash. Tags: 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 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 92 8 Disambiguation of "To force one's way into; to crash": 99 1
  2. To forcibly overpower a person.
    Sense id: en-bum-rush-en-verb-Q9071V9s
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Related terms: bum rush, bum's rush

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