rumpus room
noun
: a room usually in the basement of a home that is used for games, parties, and recreation
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Astute salesmen noted the shelters doubled as storage facilities or rumpus rooms.
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Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024
The library walls and the walls in the rumpus room are black; the dining room walls are dark teal.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
Booze Garden is a tiny, turfed indoor rumpus room whose welcoming light pours from a doorway along the FEC tracks in a gloomy Himmarshee District.
—Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2020
The nostalgia lover will find stores in 2022 carrying plenty of items reminiscent of the knickknacks in Aunt Mary's rumpus room.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2022
Home movies — that is, in the classic sense, personal amateur recordings, made with 8 mm, Super 8 or 16 mm celluloid film, screened in a rumpus room, as God intended — are now 20th-century artifacts.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
During those decades, the weeping fig, often called a ficus plant, experienced an initial wave of popularity that landed it in rumpus rooms and dentist offices around the country.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
The three-story brick home includes a glass conservatory, ballroom, basement rumpus room and coach house.
—Alex Nitkin, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
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Mark Dent, thehustle.co, 31 May 2024
The library walls and the walls in the rumpus room are black; the dining room walls are dark teal.
—Joanne Kempinger Demski, Journal Sentinel, 25 May 2023
Booze Garden is a tiny, turfed indoor rumpus room whose welcoming light pours from a doorway along the FEC tracks in a gloomy Himmarshee District.
—Ben Crandell, sun-sentinel.com, 17 Dec. 2020
The nostalgia lover will find stores in 2022 carrying plenty of items reminiscent of the knickknacks in Aunt Mary's rumpus room.
—Kirby Adams, The Courier-Journal, 22 Nov. 2022
Home movies — that is, in the classic sense, personal amateur recordings, made with 8 mm, Super 8 or 16 mm celluloid film, screened in a rumpus room, as God intended — are now 20th-century artifacts.
—Christopher Borrelli, Chicago Tribune, 4 Oct. 2022
During those decades, the weeping fig, often called a ficus plant, experienced an initial wave of popularity that landed it in rumpus rooms and dentist offices around the country.
—Los Angeles Times, 15 Aug. 2019
The three-story brick home includes a glass conservatory, ballroom, basement rumpus room and coach house.
—Alex Nitkin, chicagotribune.com, 1 May 2018
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