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Vinony

bum-rush

verb

  1. to force or barge one’s way into (a place or event)
  2. crash, slam or invade, possibly unexpectedly
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Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: Usage occurred May 4th, 1939 in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake meaning rapidly rushing towards and crashing against ("... came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another, with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow,").

  1. To force one's way into; to crash.
  2. To forcibly overpower a person.

    “2015 August 21, KGWhttp://www.kgw.com/story/news/local/2015/08/21/oregon-soldier-takes-down-gunman--french-train/32162823/ That gave them the opportunity to bum-rush [the gunman]”

    “It had what they call a safety space[…] He was trying to get into it, but he got bum rushed so fast that he didn't get into that.”