Meaning of bum's rush | Babel Free

Definitions

The forcible ejection of someone, such as a bum or a hobo, from an establishment.

US, idiomatic, slang

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Examples

“"I didnt' think you fellows'd put the bum's rush onto me," he complained, "I ain't no bum."”

“It seems that the board appointed to look into alleged shortcomings of leftish Council leaders didn't like the "observers" who were brought along and decided to give them the bum's rush.”

“At that point Duck got the bum’s rush from the organising Miss Bowen[.]”

“But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is a bum's rush!””

“Early last September, some fellow beekeepers reported that the females in their bee colonies had already given the bum's rush to the males, the drones, kicking them out in the cold.”

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