

It caused a big rumpus in Fleet Street, with the broadsheets running second-day stories on Monday and follow-ups for most of the week.Īpart from the birdbath-sized incense burner in the center of the rug, the inner chamber of Ray Rah's temple looked like nothing more than a frat house rumpus room. You can click links on the left to see detailed information of each definition, including definitions in English and your local language. Please know that five of other meanings are listed below. Marcel the Maine Coon cat came out from wherever he'd been hiding during the rumpus and rubbed against Marc's calves. Other Meanings of TWR As mentioned above, the TWR has other meanings.

I don't give a shit about being a college man or having a diploma to hang over the mantel in my rumpus room, but I'll be fucked if I want to go back to Dexter and hang around fuckin Bowlorama with the rest of the retards until Uncle Sam calls me. One of the cops was asking Charlton if they could have a blanket to cover him up, and Chariton was saying she didn’t know if she had the authority to requisition one, and Louis found himself thinking of a line from Maurice Sendak: “Let the wild rumpus start! The blighters will take us for pirates - I don't blame them if they do - and there'd be a deuce of a rumpus before we could explain. Send us feedback about these examples.I paid Sam Pitman twenty-five dollars to get him to release all his claims without any rumpus.Ĭupid in the school Valentine's Day pageant, and the sister's school had got out early one day after an asbestos scare and she'd come unexpectedly home and found the Old Man in the basement rumpus room in tiny wings and hideously distended diaper striking a pose from a rather well-known Titian oil in the Met's High Renaissance Wing, and had struggled with denial and own-perceptions-doubting for quite some time thereafter, until a hysterical episode during rehearsals for an Ice Capades Valentine's Day number brought all the feelings surging up and broke the denial, and the Ice Capades' Employee Assistance Office counselling staff helped her start to work it all through.įreddy Aviles, trailing a flight bag from his shoulder, slowly spiraled through the rumpus room. These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'rumpus room.' Any opinions expressed in the examples do not represent those of Merriam-Webster or its editors. 2019 The three-story brick home includes a glass conservatory, ballroom, basement rumpus room and coach house. 2022 During those decades, the weeping fig, often called a ficus plant, experienced an initial wave of popularity that landed it in rumpus rooms and dentist offices around the country. Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022 Home movies - that is, in the classic sense, personal amateur recordings, made with 8 mm, Super 8 or 16 mm celluloid film, screened in a rumpus room, as God intended - are now 20th-century artifacts.

Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2020 The nostalgia lover will find stores in 2022 carrying plenty of items reminiscent of the knickknacks in Aunt Mary's rumpus room. Recent Examples on the Web Booze Garden is a tiny, turfed indoor rumpus room whose welcoming light pours from a doorway along the FEC tracks in a gloomy Himmarshee District.
