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rump

/ˈɹʌmp/

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rump noun: the hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs.

Noun

rump (plural rumps)

  1. The hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs
  2. A cut of meat from the rump of an animal.
    Synonyms:
    round
  3. The buttocks.
  4. A remnant, as in Rump Parliament.
    • This is the rump of the C.L.C. branch to Southport Lord Street, which lost its passenger services beyond Aintree from January 7, 1952, whereupon the timetable between Gateacre and Aintree was greatly curtailed.1960 December, “Talking of Trains: Branch report”, in Trains Illustrated, page 708

Verb

rump (third-person singular simple present rumps, present participle rumping, simple past and past participle rumped)

  1. (transitive) To turn one's back on, to show one's (clothed) backside to, as a sign of disrespect.
    • And when they succeeded in forcing themselves back upon the King, who loathed them, and had rumped them, they put the Great Seal into Commission, and omitted Lord Brougham's name in the list of the Cabinet.1839, The Corsair, page 173
    • Soon afterwards, meeting the lecturer, whom he had been previously in the habit of greeting with great courtesy, the Duke looked him fairly down, and then rumped him without mercy.1850, Erskine Neale, The life of ... Edward, duke of Kent, page 196
  2. (slang, vulgar) To fuck. (Compare bum (verb).)
    • Rodrigo had also set eyes on a woman at court but I doubt he was rumping her in the hay, like I was with Maria. In Rodrigo's case, it was more a sort of teenager fascination of the unobtainable.2014, Tom Hill, Swords of El Cid: “Rodrigo! May God curse him!”, Andrews UK Limited, →ISBN
    • In fact I have to stop thinking about it. Because that would mean all those times I was rumping her she was only pretending. Not just faking orgasms like they can, but pretending through and through and that's a thought can make me a bit dizzy.2014, John Barker, Futures: A Novel, PM Press, →ISBN, page 15
  3. (UK, slang) To cheat.
    • Seems this Stevie had a score to settle with some guy that had rumped him over a bundle of traveller's cheques and he thought by telling me this guy was the one that shot me I'd find him and kill him stone dead; […]2007, Peter Gerrard, The Guvnor Tapes - Lenny McLean's Unpublished Stories, As Told By The Man Himself, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN
    • They'd been rumped out of half a kilo of charlie by a toeraf of a crack-head called Mad Mickey D from Bermondsey. And after he rumped them he was going round telling everybody that the Arifs were total fucking mugs. So they called him out for a drink one night, palled him up and then proceeded to...2013, Horace Silver, Judas Pig, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN
  4. To ramble; to move (or talk) aimlessly.
    • […] Mr. Turner. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman from Allegheny has been rumping around for several minutes and I think I ought to have a chance to rump a little bit.1942, Pennsylvania. General Assembly. House of Representatives, Journal
    • SEIGISMUNDO If she hadn't gone rumping around the world. Rubbing up on this and that man for her sport.
      PRIVIE She only rubbed on one man.
      SEIGISMUNDO That was one too many.1971, Black Review
  5. To move (someone or something) around.
    • Barney rumped him out to the step, but the kid hung onto the door. Wind roared into the cab. Cold. Slicing up Barney's trouser's legs, pressing his shirt. The rig's heavy treads machinegunned the pavement.1957, The Saturday Evening Post Stories
    • So he held Jody and she drank half and then he rumped her up on his shoulder and patted her, the way his mom did.1983, Susan Arnout, Susan Arnout Smith, The Frozen Lady, Arbor House Publishing Company, →ISBN

Proper noun capitalized: Rump

Rump (plural Rumps)

  1. A surname.
  2. (UK, historical) The Rump Parliament of 1648-1653 and 1659-1660.
    • Before executing Charles I, the Rump made it illegal to proclaim anyone else king to replace him.
  3. (US, derogatory) Nickname for Q22686 (born 1946), President of the United States (2017–2021; since 2025).
    Synonyms:
    DJT, The Donald, Trump, Cheeto, Dementia Don, Diaper Don, Dirty Donald, Donald Duck, Donald Trumpet, Don Snoreleone

rump meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

rump in Hindi

rump, haunch, hip
पुट्ठा puṭṭhā

rump in Tamil

பிட்டம், பின்பகுதி

rump in Urdu

پٹھا

rump in Bengali

মেরুদন্ডের প্রান্তভাগ, নিতম্ব, পাছা
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rump in Malayalam
പൃഷ്ഠം, മൃഗപൃഷ്ഠം, ശ്രോണി, പിൻഭാഗം
rump in Indonesian
tanjung
rump in Persian
سرین sorin, کپل kapal, لمبر lombar, الست alast

Examples of rump in a sentence

  • Next day he walked to St James's Palace to be presented to his godfather, the famously rude King George II, who 'rumped' him (turned his back on him) without a word.2010, Tim Clayton, Tars, Hodder, →ISBN:
  • They'd been rumped out of half a kilo of charlie by a toeraf of a crack-head called Mad Mickey D from Bermondsey.2013, Horace Silver, Judas Pig, Lulu Press, Inc, →ISBN:
  • I started to drive the cows into the barn, the buck was rumping around with the young stock so I couldn't get the cows in the barn.1991, Dorothy Wooldridge Person, Personotes:

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Synonyms of rump

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Forms of rump

Noun
pluralrumps
Verb
third-person singular presentrumps
present participlerumping
past participlerumped
pastrumped
Proper noun
pluralRumps

Plural of rump: rumps

Origin of rump

From Middle English rumpe, from Old Norse rumpr (“rump”), from Middle Low German rump (“the bulk or trunk of a body, trunk of a tree”), ultimately from Proto-Germanic *rumpō (“trunk of a tree, log”). The ultimate origin could be related to Proto-Germanic *hrimpaną (“to wrinkle”) (Dutch rimpel and German rümpfen (“to wrinkle”)); outside of Germanic, compare Ancient Greek ῥάμφος (rhámphos, “crooked beak”). Cognate with Icelandic rumpur (“rump”), Swedish rumpa (“rump”), Dutch romp (“trunk, body, hull”), German Rumpf (“hull, trunk, torso, trunk”). In the sense of remnant, first attested in the Rump Parliament of 1648; its original meaning here was a reference to the rotten, unclean hindquarters of an animal, gradually morphing to refer to the "remnant" aspect of the Parliament rather than its perceived unsavory nature.

Words formed from rump

Phrases with rump

Words that rhyme with rump

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Questions about rump

What does rump mean?
Rump means the hindquarters of a four-legged mammal, not including its legs.
What is rump in Hindi?
Rump in Hindi is पुट्ठा (puṭṭhā). See Rump meaning in Hindi.
How do you use rump in a sentence?
Next day he walked to St James's Palace to be presented to his godfather, the famously rude King George II, who 'rumped' him (turned his back on him) without a word.
What part of speech is rump?
Rump can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce rump?
Rump is pronounced /ˈɹʌmp/ (UK).
What is the plural of rump?
The plural of rump is rumps.

Words near rump in the dictionary

  1. rumourmongers
  2. rumourous
  3. rumours
  4. rumourtism
  5. rumourtrage
  6. rump
  7. rump and stump
  8. rump cap
  9. rump cover
  10. rump ranger
  11. rump rangers

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: rump (page history and authors); Rump (page history and authors); पुट्ठा (Hindi) (page history and authors); rump (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rump (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rump (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); rump (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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