What is "rumpot"

Usage examples of "rumpot".

Calabria wheedling, remonstrating, cajoling and patronizing the new master by turns, now for his misguided notions of fairness in dealing with the striking miners, now for the uses of influence in getting ahead, breaking off for a highly theatrical interlude of mugging and arson and here came the playful glissando again as new comic possibilities emerged in the parade of petty thieves, rumpots, fugitives from wives and creditors and a brace of Chippewa Indians being cursorily questioned, pummeled, browbeaten, paid and fleeced as recruits for the Union army by the mine manager in his time away from raising stores of vermifuges, decorative sabres, trusses and mule feed cut with sand in the patriotic cause.

I hate waste, and a man of the sort he must have been turning himself into the rumpot he was now was waste of the worst kind.

He is especially a great rumpot, and after he gets going good in the league, he is just as apt to appear for a game all mulled up as not.