Definitions for the word "rush" from multiple English dictionaries.
1. n.
A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The merest trifle; a straw.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. v. i.
To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. v. i.
To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. v. t.
To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. v. t.
To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
7. n.
A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
8. n.
Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
9. n.
A perfect recitation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
10. n.
A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
11. n.
The act of running with the ball.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
12. v.
1 go, move, flow, or act precipitately or with great speed. 2 move or transport with great haste (was rushed to hospital). 3 (foll. By at) a move suddenly towards. B begin or attack impetuously. 4 perform or deal with hurriedly (don''t rush your dinner). 5 force or induce (a person) to act hastily. 6 attack or capture by sudden assault. 7 slang overcharge (a customer). n. 1 a rushing; violent or speedy advance or attack. B sudden flow, flood. 2 period of great activity. 3 (attrib.) Done with great haste or speed (a rush job). 4 sudden migration of large numbers. 5 (foll. By on, for) sudden strong demand for a commodity. 6 (in pl.) Colloq. First uncut prints of a film. [french ruser: related to *ruse]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
13. n.
1 marsh plant with slender tapering pith-filled stems, used for making chair-bottoms, baskets, etc. 2 stem of this. rushy adj. [old english]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884
14. slang
to come upon suddenly, generally for the purpose of borrowing.
To “give a man the RUSH,” is to spunge upon him all day, and then borrow
money at the finish, or pursue some such similar mode of procedure.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
15. slang
“doing it on the RUSH,” running away, or making off.
Source: The Slang Dictionary, 1864
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