bum-rush

== English == === Alternative forms === bumrush, bum rush bum's rush === 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) (transitive, informal) To force one's way into; to crash. (transitive, informal) To forcibly overpower a person. 2015 August 21, KGW[1] 2026 January 3, Donald Trump[2]: ==== Related terms ==== bum's rush ==== Translations ==== === Anagrams === bush rum