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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
rump
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
white
▪ Larger and rather more uniformly dark than Little Swift, and with a markedly narrower white rump and distinctly forked tail.
▪ Curved white patch on rump narrower than Curlew Sandpiper's.
▪ Black wing-tips and lack of pale or white rump are best distinctions from Rock Dove.
▪ In summer the only all-dark wader with a wedge-shaped white rump.
■ NOUN
steak
▪ Termites, more nutritious than rump steak!
▪ Rump steak, his mind was babbling, rump steak.
▪ I go colour of rump steak, feel like burning cigarette end all over shoulders, thighs, feet.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Her rump burned as though a bonfire had been lit under it, and she realised she was standing upright.
▪ I got under her at the strategic moment, and placing one shoulder under her vast rump, heaved her up.
▪ Labour was reduced to a rump.
▪ Mbeki also helped make space, though apparently reluctantly, for a rump of the old internal Mass Democratic Movement leadership.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rump

Rump \Rump\, n. [OE. rumpe; akin to D. romp trunk, body, LG. rump, G. rumpf, Dan. rumpe rump, Icel. rumpr, Sw. rumpa rump, tail.]

  1. The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.

  2. Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. See Illust. of Beef.

  3. Fig.: The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.

    Rump Parliament, or The Rump (Eng. Hist.), the remnant of the Long Parliament after the expulsion by Cromwell in 1648 of those who opposed his purposes. It was dissolved by Cromwell in 1653, but twice revived for brief sessions, ending finally in 1659.

    The Rump abolished the House of Lords, the army abolished the Rump, and by this army of saints Cromwell governed.
    --Swift.

    Rump steak, a beefsteak from the rump.
    --Goldsmith.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
rump

"hind-quarters, buttocks of an animal," mid-15c., from a Scandinavian source (compare Danish, Norwegian rumpe, Swedish rumpa), from or corresponding to Middle Dutch romp, German Rumpf "trunk, torso." Sense of "small remnant" derives from "tail" and is first recorded 1640s in reference to the English Rump Parliament (December 1648-April 1653). As an adjective from c.1600.

Wiktionary
rump

n. 1 The hindquarters of an animal 2 A cut of meat from the rump of an animal. 3 The buttocks. 4 remnant, as in ''rump parliament''.

WordNet
rump
  1. n. the part of a quadruped that corresponds to the human buttocks [syn: hindquarters, croup, croupe]

  2. fleshy hindquarters; behind the loin and above the round

  3. the fleshy part of the human body that you sit on; "he deserves a good kick in the butt"; "are you going to sit on your fanny and do nothing?" [syn: buttocks, nates, arse, butt, backside, bum, buns, can, fundament, hindquarters, hind end, keister, posterior, prat, rear, rear end, stern, seat, tail, tail end, tooshie, tush, bottom, behind, derriere, fanny, ass]

Wikipedia
Rump

Rump may refer to:

  • Rump (animal)
    • Buttocks
  • Rump steak, slightly different cuts of meat in Britain and America
  • Rump kernel, software run in userspace that offers kernel functionality in NetBSD
Rump (animal)

The rump or croup, in the external morphology of an animal, is the portion of the posterior dorsum that is posterior to the loins and anterior to the tail. Anatomically, the rump corresponds to the sacrum.

The tailhead or dock is the beginning of the tail, where the tail joins the rump. It is known also as the base or root of the tail, and corresponds to the human sacrococcygeal symphysis. In some mammals the tail may be said to consist of the tailbone (meaning the bony column, muscles, and skin) and the skirt (meaning the long hairs growing from the tailbone). In birds, similarly, the tail consists of tailbone and tailfan (tail fan).

Some animals are subjected to docking, the amputation of the tailbone at or near the dock. These include dogs, cats, sheep, pigs, and horses. Humans have a remnant tail, the coccyx, and the human equivalent of docking is coccygectomy.

Usage examples of "rump".

The afterbirth dangled from her rump like a cluster of grape Popsicles.

French Style Roast Beaf 3 lb Boneless chuck or 1 tsp salt rolled rump roast 1 tsp thyme 6 whole cloves 5 peppercorns 1 bay leaf 1 lg clove, garlic 4 c water 4 med.

He was coming out of the byre directing a heifer by prodding its rump with a sharp stick, and he became still as he stared at her while the animal galloped away to the end of the yard.

He smiled warmly, just happy to have her with him again, relishing every ridge of the cicatrice design that flowed down her back and up over the hills of her rump.

Big Betsy looked back at him, over her shoulder, coyly wriggling her rump.

Tightening my arms about her, I pressed my cock against her dimpled rump, gently grinding against her cushiony ass.

Suddenly he rose, delivered a kick of some force on the astounded rump of Dopey, seized the shovel and hurled its contents into the furnace before the dog had time to recover from his surprise and indignation.

Then he bestowed upon the rump of Dopey one of the most venomous kicks ever received by a dog.

Imbri sent, her dreamlet showing the monster yelping as he got toasted on the rump by a burning brand.

He kept turning his head back to the valley floor, and Per pulled his head around, kicked him, urged him on, whacked his rump with the butt of his lance, set on taking his own prisoner, a man Gobby would have let escape.

Pwyll thrust his spear and struck Grudlwyn Gorr in the middle of the boss of his shield so that it split in half, and Grudlwyn Gorr tumbled the length of his arm and spear over the rump of his horse to the ground, a deep wound in his chest.

He had come to believe, partly from practice, partly from theory, that twenty blows with a baton on the rump are not dishonoring.

Gerron, becoming a corporal, had obtained no idea of any kind of sorrow other than that coming from the blows of a baton on the rump .

If Gerron caused trouble to the spirit of a man of honor, he thought that this spirit, like his own, had only a rump, and that any trouble he caused would pass likewise.

Panniers mounted on its rump and shoulders hek tent felts, ropes and poles, and the many other items required foi raising camp.