Hullabaloo

Usage examples of rumpus.

I paid Sam Pitman twenty-five dollars to get him to release all his claims without any rumpus.

Cupid in the school Valentine's Day pageant, and the sister's school had got out early one day after an asbestos scare and she'd come unexpectedly home and found the Old Man in the basement rumpus room in tiny wings and hideously distended diaper striking a pose from a rather well-known Titian oil in the Met's High Renaissance Wing, and had struggled with denial and own-perceptions-doubting for quite some time thereafter, until a hysterical episode during rehearsals for an Ice Capades Valentine's Day number brought all the feelings surging up and broke the denial, and the Ice Capades' Employee Assistance Office counselling staff helped her start to work it all through.

Freddy Aviles, trailing a flight bag from his shoulder, slowly spiraled through the rumpus room.

The blighters will take us for pirates — I don't blame them if they do — and there'd be a deuce of a rumpus before we could explain.

One of the cops was asking Charlton if they could have a blanket to cover him up, and Chariton was saying she didn’t know if she had the authority to requisition one, and Louis found himself thinking of a line from Maurice Sendak: “Let the wild rumpus start!

I don't give a shit about being a college man or having a diploma to hang over the mantel in my rumpus room, but I'll be fucked if I want to go back to Dexter and hang around fuckin Bowlorama with the rest of the retards until Uncle Sam calls me.

Marcel the Maine Coon cat came out from wherever he'd been hiding during the rumpus and rubbed against Marc's calves.

It caused a big rumpus in Fleet Street, with the broadsheets running second-day stories on Monday and follow-ups for most of the week.

Apart from the birdbath-sized incense burner in the center of the rug, the inner chamber of Ray Rah's temple looked like nothing more than a frat house rumpus room.

Rah's temple looked like nothing more than a frat house rumpus room.