bum-rush

See also: bumrush and bum rush

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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,").

Verb

bum-rush (third-person singular simple present bum-rushes, present participle bum-rushing, simple past and past participle bum-rushed)

  1. (transitive, informal) To force one's way into; to crash.
  2. (transitive, informal) To forcibly overpower a person.
    • 2015 August 21, KGW[1]
      That gave them the opportunity to bum-rush [the gunman]
    • 2026 January 3, Donald Trump[2]:
      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.

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