[ UK /ɹˈʌmp/ ]
[ US /ˈɹəmp/ ]
NOUN
  1. the part of an animal that corresponds to the human buttocks
  2. fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round
  3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on
    he deserves a good kick in the butt
    are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?
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How To Use rump In A Sentence

  • This close-up view of what had been trumpeted as the greatest army on earth provided facts which took time to absorb. KARA KUSH
  • A six-time Grammy nominee (talk about frustration), Elling has released six albums of audacious vocalese that trumpet his daring range and intellectualism.
  • The promise of tax cuts proved, as always, to be the Republican Party's trump card.
  • Moray eels, garfish and trumpetfish were roaming and snapping at a plethora of potential prey.
  • I went into the office to find the offender, and saw a worried woman crumpled in a chair in the corner, wearing a look of weariness and doubt.
  • All yellowhammers have striking, rusty-coloured, unstreaked rumps which are most attractive.
  • And that was all my poor cousin got by making his old mistress his new wife — not a drum, not a trumpet, not a fife, not a tabret, nor the expectation of a new joy, to animate him on! Clarissa Harlowe
  • Rubiochico,) "which was fast swamping the sparkling stars, like a bright river flowing over diamonds, when the old gander again set up his gabblement and trumpeted more loudly than before. Tom Cringle's Log
  • It is best for 5 or 4 players, and features a novel and ingenious method of bidding to choose the trumps and partnerships.
  • Just as trumpeters wore distinctive uniforms, so too they rode distinctive horses, usually greys, to aid recognition.
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