rumping

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
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
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the one that shot me I'd find him and kill him stone dead; […]2007, Peter Gerrard, The Guvnor Tapes - Lenny McLean's Unpublished Stories, As Told By The Man Himself, Kings Road Publishing, →ISBN
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
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

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