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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 (also hoo-hah), hoopla, hubble-bubble, hubbub, hullabaloo, hurly, hurly-burly, hurricane, hurry, hurry-scurry (or 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
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The rumpus encapsulated the trick that several Gulf states are trying to pull off. — The Economist, "The unlikely rise of book fairs in the Gulf," 4 July 2019 But that was due to change even before the rumpus over Cambridge Analytica. — The Economist, "Britain moves to rein in data-analytics," 28 Mar. 2018 Seattle fans can always keep in touch with Rialto’s rumpus — watchable on the aquarium’s sea otter cam. — Lynda V. Mapes, The Seattle Times, "From Seattle to Vancouver: See how Rialto the otter, once near death, is thriving," 24 Mar. 2018 The recent stock market rumpus has been set off in part by fears that a tight labor market and quickening wage growth are a foretaste of higher inflation and interest rates. — Author: Patricia Cohen, Anchorage Daily News, "Where did your pay raise go? It may have become a bonus," 11 Feb. 2018 A center island divides the kitchen from a living/rumpus room. — Marcelle Sussman Fischler, New York Times, "House Hunting in . . . Auckland, New Zealand," 11 Jan. 2017 A virtual rumpus room of toys, games, books, clothing, and furniture, the show proves an old adage: Small is beautiful. — Mark Rozzo, Town & Country, "Tiny Furniture," 16 Nov. 2012 Amid the rumpus over jobs, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of electronics and information technology met with industry leaders June 18. — Vidhi Doshi, chicagotribune.com, "The high-tech jobs that created India's gilded generation are disappearing," 25 June 2017 Amid the rumpus over jobs,Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of electronics and information technology met with industry leaders June 18. . — Vidhi Doshi, Washington Post, "The high-tech jobs that created India’s gilded generation are disappearing," 24 June 2017These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'rumpus.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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