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rumble noun- a fight, especially between teenage gangs US
- Their activities now range from fighting each other for the pure love of bloodshed (called “rumbles”) to highway robbery. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, New York Confidential, p. 105, 1948
- On this particular evening rumbles with other gags had been far from Sandpaper’s mind. — Dale Krame, Teen-Age Gangs, p. 10, 1953
- — American Speech, May 1955
- A rumble! That’s the only way. — Max Shulman, Rally Round the Flag, Boys!, p. 230, 1957
- And the captain promised me there wouldn’t be any rumbles in here. — Chester Himes, A Rage in Harlem, p. 207, 1957
- The second test, we had to come off with a rumble–in another town–in other words, a gang war. — Willard Motely, Let No Man Write My Epitaph, p. 208, 1958
- Ray was the toast of Paris and although he had a rumble coming up in London in ten weeks with a stud named Turpin, he did his rehearsing in the south of France balling on the beaches and casinos. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 16, 1975
- a wild party US
- — Collin Baker et al., College Undergraduate Slang Study Conducted at Brown University, p. 186, 1968
- a difficult encounter with law enforcement US
- — Bruce Jackson, Outside the Law, p. 59, 1972: “Glossary”
- a concerted police search for narcotics US
- — New York Times Magazine, p. 88, 16 March 1958
- a rumour US
- “The rumble’s out already. Half the Bowery knows you’re holed up here.” — Curt Cannon, The Death of Me, p. 104, 1953
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