Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A violent altercation or personal encounter; a rumpus; a ruction.
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Examples
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My great great aunt is Bonnie Parker my family has early pictures of heer and Clyde before their little rukus.
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My great great aunt is Bonnie Parker my family has early pictures of heer and Clyde before their little rukus.
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Ai plaiz the moovee and enc…ins… caused a hooj rukus wif mai kitz.
Video: Vocal Kitteh - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2009
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CNN is simply using this story to cause a rukus of debate and fuel their own interests among readers and viewers.
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To be woken by one of them is a truly iconic Australian experience - even better than a rukus of Major Mitchells.
Pitch Black Glenda Larke 2008
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At 2: 15 p.m., EST, CNN reports that the US has declared victory against the Taliban in the rukus around Kandahar.
Yeah, it's kind of like that. CC 2008
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We both had trouble sleeping hearing this thing whatever it was hopping around and making a rukus.
Archive 2006-12-01 Michelle Amarante Photography 2006
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There's so much attention when a white person is killed because white people raise a rukus.
1 White Man's Death Gets Attention Nathaniel Livingston 2006
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We both had trouble sleeping hearing this thing whatever it was hopping around and making a rukus.
Bats In The Belfrey..... Michelle Amarante Photography 2006
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A little way off we see a something going on, a rukus.
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