Rumbullion

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

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Noun
  1. 1
    Rum, the spirit. countable, obsolete, uncountable
  2. 2
    A great tumult. archaic, colloquial, countable, uncountable

    "A. E. Coppard […] Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it! All over the room, and a chimney-pot burst and rattled down the tiles into a prambulator. What a rumbullion."

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rum

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"A. E. Coppard […] Rufus got hold of a gun and fired it off up chimney, and down come the soot, bushels of it! All over the room, and a chimney-pot burst and rattled down the tiles into a prambulator. What a rumbullion."

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