rump
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We’ve shipped enormous quantities of rump across the Pacific for ground beef for hamburgers.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 20, 2026
"We get really nice fruit and veg in, biscuits - last week we had some really nice rump steak which went down a storm."
From BBC ● Feb. 2, 2026
Water and other specialties stay behind in the rump DuPont.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 9, 2025
But when the show’s first Hamlet, ambulated by an Oxford-trained actor named Dipo Ola, performs a few lines, he’s instantly more compelling than the sight of ParTeb shaking his rump.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 17, 2025
A quarter of pork or a rump of beef would do.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
All the other elephants in his herd run to him at the first sign of trouble; during calmer times, they willingly present him with their rumps in a seeming sign of submission.
From Salon ● May 27, 2024
It has long been assumed that the primary hosts for avian flu are dabbling ducks, such as mallards, teals and shovelers, that feed on the surface and just below with their rumps in the air.
From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2022
Females were more likely to bite the rumps of males at the most fertile phase of their reproductive cycle, researchers found.
From The Guardian ● May 9, 2018
If you watch their weight over their rumps, that's where they usually lose it if they can't handle what you're giving them.
From Seattle Times ● May 19, 2012
He sat close to his uncle then, on the wagon seat, above the bony gray rumps of the mules.
From "Ceremony:" by Leslie Marmon Silko
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