rush
Meanings
- A sudden forward motion.
- A surge.
- General haste.
- A rapid, noisy flow.
- A sudden attack; an onslaught.
- The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
- The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
- A rusher; a lineman.
- A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
- A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
- A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
- A perfect recitation.
- To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
- To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
- To dribble rapidly.
- To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
- To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
- To make a swift or sudden attack.
- To swiftly attack without warning.
- To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
- To transport or carry quickly.
- To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
- To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
- To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
- Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
- Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
- The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
- The merest trifle; a straw.
- A wick.
- A surname
- A surname from English
- An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made things from rushes.
- A surname from Irish
- A surname from German
- A male given name.
- A placename
- A coastal town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.
- A number of places in the United States.
- An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
- A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
- A dialect of the programming language PL/I.
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Etymology
Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”). Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsċ (“quick, quick-witted, clever”), Old Frisian rosk, rosch (“quick, rapid, sudden”). etymology note An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English ruschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser. Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.