Synonyms
- ado
- alarums and excursions
- ballyhoo
- blather
- bluster
- bobbery
- bother
- bustle
- clatter
- clutter [chiefly dialect]
- coil
- commotion
- corroboree [Australian]
- disturbance
- do [chiefly dialect]
- foofaraw
- fun
- furor
- furore
- fuss
- helter-skelter
- hoo-ha
- hoo-hah
- hoopla
- hubble-bubble
- hubbub
- hullabaloo
- hurly
- hurly-burly
- hurricane
- hurry
- hurry-scurry
- hurry-skurry
- kerfuffle [chiefly British]
- moil
- pandemonium
- pother
- row
- ruckus
- ruction
- shindy
- splore [Scottish]
- squall
- stew
- stir
- storm
- to-do
- tumult
- turmoil
- uproar
- welter
- whirl
- williwaw
- zoo
Examples of rumpus in a Sentence
the kids made such a rumpus that they woke up everyone else in the house
Recent Examples on the Web
But in the world of venture capital, where investors pride themselves on being mature counselors to brilliant-but-impulsive founders, the public dispute that broke out between Andreessen and Khosla over the past few days qualifies as a remarkable rumpus.
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
The sunset is a red-gold rumpus on the western sky.
—Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
A little boy named Max who got up on the wrong side of the bed meets a troupe of teeth-gnashing monsters — and so the wild rumpus begins.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2023
Everything's wild rumpus springs from the everyday struggles of an L.A. laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) and her semi-estranged husband and daughter (Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, respectively), then starts shooting out sparks from there like a Catherine wheel.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 June 2022
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Allie Garfinkle, Fortune, 5 Mar. 2024
The sunset is a red-gold rumpus on the western sky.
—Anne Carson, The New Yorker, 22 Jan. 2024
A little boy named Max who got up on the wrong side of the bed meets a troupe of teeth-gnashing monsters — and so the wild rumpus begins.
—Karen Cicero, Good Housekeeping, 10 July 2023
Everything's wild rumpus springs from the everyday struggles of an L.A. laundromat owner (Michelle Yeoh) and her semi-estranged husband and daughter (Ke Huy Quan and Stephanie Hsu, respectively), then starts shooting out sparks from there like a Catherine wheel.
—Leah Greenblatt, EW.com, 28 June 2022
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“Rumpus.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/rumpus. Accessed 16 Nov. 2024.
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rumpus
noun
rum·pus
ˈrəm-pəs 
: a noisy commotion
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