Bum-rush Definition
bŭmrŭsh
bum-rushes
verb
To charge at or into (a person or place).
Groupies who bum-rushed the musician's dressing room.
American Heritage
To force one's way into; to crash.
Wiktionary
noun
(idiomatic) Storming into an establishment.
Wiktionary
Origin of Bum-rush
Usage occurred May 4th, 1939 in James Joyce's Finnegans Wake meaning rapidly rushing towards and crashing against ("... came at this timecoloured place where we live in our paroqial fermament one tide on another, with a bumrush in a hull of a wherry, the twin turbane dhow,").
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Originates from the 1980s, as slang for the stampede of people created by a police raid.
From Wiktionary
bum tramp rush
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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