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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To charge at or into (a person or place).

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  • verb transitive To force one's way into; to crash

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[bum, tramp + rush.]

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Usage occurred May 4th, 1939 in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake meaning rapidly rushing towards and crashing against ("... came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another, with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow,").

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