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bum-rush

bum-rush

See also: bumrush and bum rush

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

  1. (transitive) To force one's way into; to crash
  2. To forcibly overpower a person
    • “That gave them the opportunity to bum-rush [the gunman]"

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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,").

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