RUMP


Meaning of RUMP in English

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.

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