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rumble
verb- to fight US
- One guy leaning on the bar would make a friendly remark about his neighbor’s tie or the style of his haircut, and in nothing flat each one was cussing up a breeze about the other’s mother until they began to rumble. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 70, 1946
- When Ray cut out to London to rumble, he only took his key five cats and left the others at the Claridge Hotel. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 16, 1975
- One time I had to rumble a deaf-mute guy. On me like white-on-rice. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 13, 1975
- in circus and carnival usage, to spoil something US
- — Don Wilmeth, The Language of American Popular Entertainment, p. 229, 1981
- to come to an understanding or realisation of something that has been concealed UK, 1886
- BBC rumbled as African orphan prank falls flat. — The Guardian, 20 November 2000
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