Definitions for Rush

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Rush rush

Spelling: [ruhsh]

IPA: /rʌʃ/

Rush is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 23 anagrams from letters in Rush (hrsu).

Definitions for Rush

noun

1. the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement.
2. a hostile attack.
3. an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region that is being occupied or exploited, especially because of a new mine:
4. a sudden appearance or access:
5. hurried activity; busy haste:
6. a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs:
7. press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste.
8. Football. an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the ball across the line of scrimmage. an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the ball.
9. a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges.
10. rushes, Movies. daily (def 4).
11. Informal. a series of lavish attentions paid a woman by a suitor:
12. the rushing by a fraternity or sorority.
13. Also called flash. Slang. the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced upon taking a narcotic or stimulant drug.
14. any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places. Compare rush family.
15. any plant of the rush family.
16. any of various similar plants.
17. a stem of such a plant, used for making chair bottoms, mats, baskets, etc.
18. something of little or no value; trifle:
19. Benjamin, 1745–1813, U.S. physician and political leader: author of medical treatises.
20. his son, Richard, 1780–1859, U.S. lawyer, politician, and diplomat.

adjective

1. requiring or done in haste:
2. characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc.:
3. characterized by the rushing of potential new members by a sorority or fraternity:

verb (used with object)

1. to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence:
2. to carry or convey with haste:
3. to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry:
4. to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste:
5. to attack suddenly and violently; charge.
6. to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.).
7. Informal. to heap attentions on; court intensively; woo:
8. to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership.
9. Football. to carry (the ball) forward across the line of scrimmage. to carry the ball (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage: (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the ball).

verb (used without object)

1. to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence.
2. to dash, especially to dash forward for an attack or onslaught.
3. to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly:
4. Football. to carry the ball on a running play or plays.

Origin of Rush

1325-75; (v.) Middle English ruschen Anglo-French russher, russer, Old French re(h)usser, re(h)user, ruser Late Latin recūsāre, to push back, Latin: to refuse. See recu

Examples for Rush

I remember the rush when I even got close to an Asteroids game in an arcade or a pizzeria.

There was a rush and faint roar of the flame up the chimney as the cardboard burned.

Calamity,” Roth writes elsewhere, “when it comes, comes in a rush.

She had feared he might rush his proposal through that night; he had been so much in earnest.

Once there was a waver in the line, such as precedes a rush.

In a show about single women, Sex and The City was always in a rush to get to the altar—and with a man there waiting.

“Work permits would encourage them to rush the border,” he says.

From morning until night, rush'd down the clanking guillotine.

You'd go out, when I was sound asleep, and tell them when they could rush me.

It will have to come to terms with the ghost of Ronald Reagan, and it will have to come to terms with rush Limbaugh.