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- noun Plural form of
rump .
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Examples
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Vote health care in 2009 and will vote your rumps out in 2010. mms55
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His conversation glides from Kafka to horses 'rumps, from the shortcomings of Christopher Isherwood to Princess Margaret's singing voice, from the genius of Gwen John to the personalities of eggs.
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud, by Martin Gayford Laura Cumming 2010
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The lashes fell on the horses 'rumps, and they leaped, and surged, and plunged, with their huge steel-shod hoofs, the size of soup - plates, tearing up the sawdust into smoke.
CHAPTER XXV 2010
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The two isolated elk stood on a knoll at the west end of the cliff; antlerless, dark brown necks, yellow rumps and red-brown body color.
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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When within a short distance from the rebel pickets, they lit the fuses and slapped the mules on their rumps to send them running into the enemy lines.
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They're big and broad-shouldered, with powerful thighs and big rumps that drive their bodies through one of the more violent actions an individual athlete can perform.
The Year of the Ace Matthew Futterman 2010
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And for you HIGHLY ethical hunters, I just imagine that you haven't observed deer running through the trees with arrows sticking out of thier rumps, throats, jaws, etc. that I have.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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And for you HIGHLY ethical hunters, I just imagine that you haven't observed deer running through the trees with arrows sticking out of thier rumps, throats, jaws, etc. that I have.
I watched a fella shoot an elk at 890 yards the other night and drop him like a sack o' potatoes. 2010
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(Yes, I know, the Yellow-rumped isn't a shore bird.) "We are at the end of the migration season now," Ranger Del Pilar said as she examined the tiny birds through her binoculars, and whose rumps do, in fact, flash yellow in flight.
Birding on the City's Far Edge Ralph Gardner Jr. 2010
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When within a short distance from the rebel pickets, they lit the fuses and slapped the mules on their rumps to send them running into the enemy lines.
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