rumba.html - n. & v.
(also rhumba) --n.

1 a Cuban Negro dance.
2 a a ballroom dance imitative of this. b the music for it.

--v.

tr. (rumbas, rumbaed or rumba'd, rumbaing) dance the rumba. [Amer. Sp.]

rumba.html - n. & v.
(also rhumba) --n.

1 a Cuban Negro dance.
2 a a ballroom dance imitative of this. b the music for it.

--v.

tr. (rumbas, rumbaed or rumba'd, rumbaing) dance the rumba. [Amer. Sp.]

rumba.html - v. & n.
--v.

1 intr. make a continuous deep resonant sound as of distant thunder.
2 intr. (foll. by along, by, past, etc.) (of a person or vehicle) move with a rumbling noise.
3 tr. (often foll. by out) utter or say with a rumbling sound.
4 tr. Brit. sl. find out about (esp. something illicit).

--n.

1 a rumbling sound.
2 US sl. a street-fight between gangs.

rumble seat US an uncovered folding seat in the rear of a motor car.

rumbler n. [ME romble, prob. f. MDu. rommelen, rummelen (imit.)]

rumba.html - adj.
colloq. boisterous, noisy, uproarious.

rumbustiously adv. rumbustiousness n. [prob. var. of robustious boisterous, ROBUST]

rumba.html - n.
1 a spirit distilled from sugar-cane residues or molasses.
2 US intoxicating liquor.

rum baba see BABA . [17th c.: perh. abbr. of contemporary forms rumbullion, rumbustion, of unkn. orig.]

rumba.html - adj.
Brit. colloq.
1 odd, strange, queer.
2 difficult, dangerous.

rum go (or start) colloq. a surprising occurrence or unforeseen turn of affairs.

rumly adv. rumness n. [16th-c. cant, orig. = fine, spirited, perh. var. of ROM]