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Definition of Rumpuses
1. rumpus [n] - See also: rumpus
Lexicographical Neighbors of Rumpuses
Literary usage of Rumpuses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1877)
"I cannot attend in It now; I have been reading a hl«rory of my distinguished
ancestors, the rumpuses of Vienna. DR. SLIM,—I never heard of them, sir. ..."
2. Theatrical Management in the West and South for Thirty Years by Solomon Smith (1868)
"The three or four thousand outsiders amused themselves by kicking up all sorts
of rumpuses in the street. The " father" did not care for all ..."
3. The Life of Whitelaw Reid by Royal Cortissoz (1921)
"The friends of the half-dozen candidates in the field exhorted, canvassed, pulled
wires, and raised, in short, one of the most fearsome rumpuses to which ..."
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