rush

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[[t]rʌʃ[/t]]

v. i.

1) to move, act, or progress with speed, impetuosity, or violence

2) to dash forward, as for an attack

3) to appear, go, pass, etc., rapidly or suddenly

4) spo to carry the football on a running play

5) to perform, accomplish, or finish with speed, impetuosity, or violence

6) to carry or convey with haste

7) to cause to move, act, or progress quickly; hurry

8) to send, push, force, impel, etc., with unusual speed or haste

9) to attack suddenly and violently; charge

10) to overcome or capture (a person, place, etc.)

11) inf Informal. to court intensively; woo

12) to entertain (a prospective fraternity or sorority member) before making bids for membership

13) spo

a) to carry (the football) forward across the line of scrimmage

b) to carry the football (a distance) forward from the line of scrimmage

c) (of a defensive team member) to attempt to force a way quickly into the backfield in pursuit of (the back in possession of the football)

14) the act of rushing; a rapid, impetuous, or violent onward movement

15) a hostile attack

16) a sudden appearance or access

17) hurried activity; busy haste

18) a hurried state, as from pressure of affairs

19) press of work, business, traffic, etc., requiring extraordinary effort or haste

20) an eager rushing of numbers of persons to some region:

the California gold rush[/ex]

21) spo

a) an attempt to carry or instance of carrying the football across the line of scrimmage

b) an act or instance of rushing the offensive back in possession of the football

22) a scrimmage held as a form of sport between classes or bodies of students in colleges

23) mot sbz rushes

daily 4)

24) inf Informal. a series of lavish attentions paid by a suitor

25) the rushing by a fraternity or sorority

26) cvb sts the initial, intensely pleasurable or exhilarated feeling experienced from a narcotic or stimulant drug

27) requiring or done in haste

28) characterized by excessive business, a press of work or traffic, etc

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Etymology: 1325–75; (v.) ME ruschen < AF russher, russer, OF re(h) us(s) er < LL recūsāre to push back, L: to refuse. Cf. recusant, ruse; (n.) ME rus(s) che, der. of the v. rush′er, n. II

rush

[[t]rʌʃ[/t]] n.

1) pln any grasslike plant of the genus Juncus, having pithy or hollow stems, found in wet or marshy places

Compare rush family

2) pln any of various similar plants

3) a stem of such a plant, used for making chair bottoms, baskets, etc

4) something of little or no value; trifle

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Etymology: bef. 900; ME rusch, risch, OE rysc, risc; c. D, obs. G Rusch