Get the FREE one-click dictionary software for Windows
or the iPhone/iPad and Android apps
Noun: rumpus  rúm-pus
Usage: informal
  1. A noisy or aggressive argument or disturbance
    "The rumpus in the street woke up the entire neighbourhood";
    - commotion, ruction [informal], ruckus [informal], tumult, bunfight [Brit, informal], bun-fight [Brit, informal]
Verb: rumpus  rúm-pus
Usage: informal
  1. Cause a disturbance
    "The children rumpused in the living room, knocking over furniture"

Derived forms: rumpuses, rumpused, rumpusing

Type of: agitate, disturbance, foment, stir up

Encyclopedia: Rumpus