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  • noun Plural form of rumpus.

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Examples

  • "rumpuses,"'_yor_ temper woan't mouldy wi keepin.'

    The History of David Grieve Humphry Ward 1885

  • Stir in that business with then England rugby captain Martin Johnson and the president of Ireland, some feisty business in the Stanley Cup involving the Pittsburg Penguins and repeated handshake rumpuses in Spain's El Clásico, and I think we can agree that what we have here is a worldwide palmdemic.

    Consign the handshake to history – or risk a sporting palmdemic | Harry Pearson 2012

  • However, be that as it may, there is always one rogue pundit or questionable figure that garners swaths of attention from the media by spinning unambiguously immaterial issues into equally ridiculous media rumpuses by stating the exact opposite of what the majority rightly know to be true.

    Rip Empson: Americans Wish Limbaugh Would Take a Vacation to Spain, Mars 2010

  • However, be that as it may, there is always one rogue pundit or questionable figure that garners swaths of attention from the media by spinning unambiguously immaterial issues into equally ridiculous media rumpuses by stating the exact opposite of what the majority rightly know to be true.

    Rip Empson: Americans Wish Limbaugh Would Take a Vacation to Spain, Mars 2010

  • In many towns and cities, these same homes sit on heaving piles of maggots, rumpuses of rats, squealing mice and all sorts of other creeping things.

    Archive 2007-06-01 2007

  • In many towns and cities, these same homes sit on heaving piles of maggots, rumpuses of rats, squealing mice and all sorts of other creeping things.

    Kitteh Urbanism 2007

  • This keeps pairs together in all but the wildest rumpuses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • This keeps pairs together in all but the wildest rumpuses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • This keeps pairs together in all but the wildest rumpuses.

    HOME COMFORTS CHERYL MENDELSON 2005

  • I always have it seems forced upon me and I have trained myself to wake up often so that I do not cause any major accidents or accidental rumpuses.

    Interview with Francis Ellen Michael Allen 2005

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