English Explanatory Dictionary

bum-rush

English dictionary entry

Meanings

verb
  1. To force one's way into; to crash.
  2. To forcibly overpower a person.

Word forms

bum-rush bum-rushes bum-rushing bum-rushed bumrush bum rush bum's rush

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,").

Related words

bum's rush
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