Contextualizebeta

bum-rush

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,").

Definitions

  1. To force one's way into

    To force one's way into; to crash.

  2. To forcibly overpower a person.

    • 2015 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]
    • 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.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for bum-rush. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA