as in cheeks
the part of the body upon which someone sits
she plopped down on her rump to listen to the campfire story
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Recent Examples of rumps
The women stood on the doorsteps with their rumps to the crowd, skirts lifted to flash tattered green knickers.
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Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
He has been vilified for his notorious drawings of oversized women with ample rumps and thick, powerful legs, definitely objectified and more or less turned into meat-at-the-ready.
—David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Literary Hub, 13 Mar. 2026
He has been vilified for his notorious drawings of oversized women with ample rumps and thick, powerful legs, definitely objectified and more or less turned into meat-at-the-ready.
—David Zane Mairowitz, Rolling Stone, 22 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for rumps
Noun
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Mullins was emotional and a few tears dampened his cheeks.—
Dom Amore,
Hartford Courant,
7 Apr. 2026
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Try popping on the Jet Lag eye patches or dabbing some Blush Butter Balm onto your cheeks and not feel a deep urge to take a stroll along an LA boardwalk.—
Sarah Hoffmann,
Allure,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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For ski bums looking to hit the Colorado slopes without slogging through I-70 traffic, there’s no better destination than Winter Park.—
Sarah Cahalan,
Travel + Leisure,
7 Mar. 2026
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Expensive trip to modern backcountry huts Backcountry skiing is no longer just for ski bums.—
Sacbee.com,
Sacbee.com,
28 Feb. 2026
Noun
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The notation was curiously quaint, dots and curly tails swimming along like so many tadpoles.—
Tim Parks,
New Yorker,
11 Apr. 2026
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One solution has been fiber-optic drones, which connect to their operators through long cables spooling out of their tails.—
Aidan Stretch,
CBS News,
6 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Practically, the new constitution reduced the number of seats in Parliament by half and redistricted the electoral map to grant Fidesz a distinct structural advantage.—
Kapil Komireddi,
New Yorker,
10 Apr. 2026
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In November, Democrats defeated two Republican incumbents in statewide races for seats on the Public Service Commission, which regulates utilities.—
ABC News,
ABC News,
9 Apr. 2026
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“Rumps.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rumps. Accessed 13 Apr. 2026.
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