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rump

American  
[ruhmp] / rʌmp /

noun

  1. the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.

  2. a cut of beef from this part of the animal, behind the loin and above the round.

  3. the buttocks.

  4. the last part, especially that which is unimportant or inferior.

    a rump of territory.

  5. the remnant of a legislature, council, etc., after a majority of the members have resigned or been expelled.

  6. English History. the Rump, Rump Parliament.

adjective

  1. constituting a subsidiary or small group or the remnant of a once larger organization.

    Our local Shakespeare Club will hold a rump meeting at the Elizabethan Drama Teachers' convention.
rump British  
/ rʌmp /

noun

  1. the hindquarters of a mammal, not including the legs

  2. the rear part of a bird's back, nearest to the tail

  3. a person's buttocks

  4. Also called: rump steak.  a cut of beef from behind the loin and above the round

  5. an inferior remnant

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of rump

1375–1425; late Middle English rumpe < Scandinavian; compare Danish, Norwegian, Swedish rumpe rump, tail; cognate with German Rumpf body, trunk

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The redesigned club will also feature a “permanent standing tribute” to the five victims of the mass shooting: Kelly Loving, Daniel Aston, Derrick Rump, Ashley Paugh and Raymond Green Vance.

From New York Times • Feb. 14, 2023

Mr Aston, 28, and Mr Rump, 38, were both bartenders at the club.

From BBC • Dec. 6, 2022

Rump was a bartender at Club Q who had "found a community of people that he loved," his sister Julia Kissling told CNN affiliate WFMZ.

From Salon • Nov. 22, 2022

Derrick Rump, 38, a bartender at Club Q, was remembered as a loving person with a quick wit who adopted his friends as his family.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2022

The bell chimed and the gnomes ran through the village shouting, “Elsbith, grandmother of Rump, has gone the way of all the earth!”

From "Rump: The (Fairly) True Story of Rumpelstilskin" by Liesl Shurtliff

Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

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