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rumpus

[ruhm-puhs] / ˈrʌm pəs /


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Commenting on her appointment, Blanchett said she was "looking forward to beginning this creative rumpus".

From BBC Jun. 16, 2026

Another rumpus at this World Cup concerns the installation of hydration breaks at the midway point of each half.

From The Wall Street Journal Jun. 13, 2026

As the characters in a Coen Brothers movie might say: What’s the rumpus?

From Slate Jul. 21, 2023

At the center of the rumpus is the confrontational enthusiast Nicholas Reeves, 66, who shares a home near Oxford, England, with a nameless house cat.

From New York Times Oct. 30, 2022

Billy was working on this letter in the basement rumpus room of his empty house.

From "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut

But then again, the NFL seems to specialize in off-field rumpuses.

From Time Jul. 28, 2015

Middle-class flight, a shriveled tax base and the usual urban rumpuses encourage St. Louis authorities to hire S. Jammu, a woman related to Indira Gandhi, to run its police department.

From Time Magazine Archive

As commander-in-chief of the rebels there emerged General "Lucky Juan" Alberto Barros, veteran of several Brazilian rumpuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Before he dies, Rivera may well add sculpture to his talents and triumphs, just as he may well get himself into more political rumpuses.

From Time Magazine Archive

Under this homely term, you must know, he included all scenes, disturbances, rumpuses, passions; and expected all men, women, and things in Kent Villa to go smoothly—or go elsewhere.

From A Simpleton by Reade, Charles




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