rump
the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
a cut of beef from this part of the animal, behind the loin and above the round.
the buttocks.
the last part, especially that which is unimportant or inferior: a rump of territory.
the remnant of a legislature, council, etc., after a majority of the members have resigned or been expelled.
the Rump, English History. Rump Parliament.
constituting a subsidiary or small group or the remnant of a once larger organization: Our local Shakespeare Club will hold a rump meeting at the Elizabethan Drama Teachers' convention.
Origin of rump
1Other words from rump
- rumpless, adjective
Words Nearby rump
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How to use rump in a sentence
More unusual were the labels torn from the front of meat packages — tenderloins, rump roasts, for example — and pasted to the inside of one kitchen cabinet.
It’s not a matter of if. The walls in these houses do talk, through hidden messages. | John Kelly | September 21, 2021 | Washington PostA few hundred yards from yesterday’s turnaround point, a scraggly, blond grizzly was scratching his rump on a concrete guardrail.
He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”
Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful.
According to SEC filings, it is this rump company which will be left with liability for any crimes.
Rupert Murdoch Recalled to Parliament as Police Launch Investigation | Peter Jukes | July 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEAST
The House GOP rump is once again running the show, leaving John Boehner scrambling and donors increasingly exasperated.
The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning.
Michael Tomasky: Obama Is Winning Because of the Shrinking GOP | Michael Tomasky | July 15, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTA remnant of the long parliament assembled during the anarchy, and has been termed the rump.
The Every Day Book of History and Chronology | Joel MunsellIn the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore at the burning of the rump.
Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete | Samuel PepysThe fat of the rump or tail is considered a great delicacy, and in hot climates resembles oil, and in colder, suet.
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenDr. Boothroyd renders one of the foregoing passages, "the large, fat tail entire, taken clear to the rump."
Domestic Animals | Richard L. AllenThe first of these characters consists in the rump being bare, on which are natural callosities peculiar to those parts.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume IX (of 10) | Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon
British Dictionary definitions for rump
/ (rʌmp) /
the hindquarters of a mammal, not including the legs
the rear part of a bird's back, nearest to the tail
a person's buttocks
Also called: rump steak a cut of beef from behind the loin and above the round
an inferior remnant
Origin of rump
1Derived forms of rump
- rumpless, adjective
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