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rump

/ruhmp/US // rʌmp //UK // (rʌmp) //

剩余部分,剩余的,残暴,残余

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the hind part of the body of an animal, as the hindquarters of a quadruped or sacral region of a bird.
    • : a cut of beef from this part of the animal, behind the loin and above the round.
    • : the buttocks.
    • : the last part, especially that which is unimportant or inferior: a rump of territory.
    • : the remnant of a legislature, council, etc., after a majority of the members have resigned or been expelled.
    • : the Rump, English History. Rump Parliament.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : constituting a subsidiary or small group or the remnant of a once larger organization: Our local Shakespeare Club will hold a rump meeting at the Elizabethan Drama Teachers' convention.

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Examples

  • More unusual were the labels torn from the front of meat packages — tenderloins, rump roasts, for example — and pasted to the inside of one kitchen cabinet.

  • A few hundred yards from yesterday’s turnaround point, a scraggly, blond grizzly was scratching his rump on a concrete guardrail.

  • He called her “a silly chattering windbag, an infernal liar, a conceited, gushing, rump-wagging, blethering ass.”

  • Whether the vote in a rump referendum over the weekend genuinely reflected public opinion in the eastern-most regions is doubtful.

  • According to SEC filings, it is this rump company which will be left with liability for any crimes.

  • The House GOP rump is once again running the show, leaving John Boehner scrambling and donors increasingly exasperated.

  • The GOP today is a rump amalgamation of plutocrats and the people who service their air conditioning.

  • A remnant of the long parliament assembled during the anarchy, and has been termed the rump.

  • In the evening, bonfires were made, but nothing to the great number that was heretofore at the burning of the Rump.

  • The fat of the rump or tail is considered a great delicacy, and in hot climates resembles oil, and in colder, suet.

  • Dr. Boothroyd renders one of the foregoing passages, "the large, fat tail entire, taken clear to the rump."

  • The first of these characters consists in the rump being bare, on which are natural callosities peculiar to those parts.