Rump

Quick meaning: Rump is a noun meaning The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs.

Meaning

The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs.

More Meanings

1. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
2. The buttocks.
3. A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
4. (transitive) To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
5. (somewhat vulgar, slang) To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).)
6. (UK, slang) To cheat.
7. To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.

Example Sentences

Soon afterwards, meeting the lecturer, whom he had been previously in the habit of greeting with great courtesy, the Duke looked him fairly down, and then rumped him without mercy.

Rodrigo had also set eyes on a woman at court but I doubt he was rumping her in the hay, like I was with Maria. In Rodrigo's case, it was more a sort of teenager fascination of the unobtainable.

And when they succeeded in forcing themselves back upon the King, who loathed them, and had rumped them, they put the Great Seal into Commission, and omitted Lord Brougham's name in the list of the Cabinet.

This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.

Word Forms

• rumps
• rumping
• rumped

Synonyms for rump

Depending on context, synonyms include croupe, crupper, round, buttocks, stern, butt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tail, tush, posterior, butt, keister, arse.

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