bum-rush
English
AI In plain words
Writing a short explanation…
Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.
bum-rush
Where it comes from
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,").
verb bum-rushes · bum-rushing · bum-rushed · bumrush · bum rush
- To force one's way into; to crash.
- 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]
Translations
Every language
verb To force one's way into; to crash
| Русский | вламываться vlamyvatʹsja |
|---|
Talk about this word "bum-rush." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/bum-rush. Accessed 7 Nov. 2026. bum-rush. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 7, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/bum-rush "bum-rush." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 7, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/bum-rush.Cite this
@misc{bum_rush_2026,
title = {bum-rush},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
url = {https://micwyn.com/word/bum-rush},
urldate = {2026-11-07}
}
