rumble
Other forms: rumbled; rumbles
Are you ready to rumble? To rumble is to throw down, or fight. If you hear a truck rumble down your street, don’t put up your dukes — to rumble also means to make a low, deep sound.
Thunder rumbles just before you see lightning flash, and dogs sometimes rumble a low warning growl when they see someone unfamiliar. As a noun, rumble can mean "a low sound," “a seat in the back of a carriage” (the rumble seat) or " a street fight." It's a little old fashioned today to call a gang brawl a rumble, but if you've ever seen the movie "West Side Story," you've seen the rumble between the Jets and the Sharks.
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utter or emit low dull rumbling sounds
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make a low noise
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a loud low dull continuous noise
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a servant's seat (or luggage compartment) in the rear of a carriage
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type of:
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seat
any support where you can sit (especially the part of a chair or bench etc. on which you sit)
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seat
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a fight between rival gangs of adolescents
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synonyms:
gang fight
/ˈrəmbəl/
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Vocabulary lists containing rumble
This list covers The Outsiders, "The Teacher Who Changed My Life," and The Miracle Worker.
After a thirteen-year-old football player ends up in a coma, his family and medical team try to piece together what happened.
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