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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: the act of making a noisy disturbance [syn: commotion, din, ruction, ruckus, rumpus, tumult] v
1: cause a disturbance

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: origin unknown Date: 1764 a usually noisy commotion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. colloq. a disturbance, brawl, row, or uproar. Phrases and idioms: rumpus room US a room in the basement of a house for games and play. Etymology: 18th c.: prob. fanciful

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Rumpus Rum"pus, n. A disturbance; noise and confusion; a quarrel. [Colloq.]

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(rumpuses) If someone or something causes a rumpus, they cause a lot of noise or argument. He had actually left the company a year before the rumpus started. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. (Colloq.) Riot, brawl, confusion, tumult, uproar, squabble, outbreak, quarrel, feud, affray, disturbance, altercation, row.

1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

A riot, quarrel, or confusion.

Moby Thesaurus

Bedlam let loose, ado, affray, agitation, barney, bedlam, blast, bluster, bobbery, bother, brawl, broil, brouhaha, cacophony, chaos, charivari, chirm, clamor, clangor, clap, clatter, coil, commotion, confusion, contention, controversy, din, discord, dispute, disturbance, donnybrook, donnybrook fair, drunken brawl, dustup, ebullition, embroilment, fanaticism, ferment, flap, fomentation, foofaraw, fracas, free-for-all, frenzy, fume, furor, furore, fury, fuss, hassle, hell broke loose, helter-skelter, howl, hubbub, hue and cry, hullabaloo, hurrah, jangle, knock-down-and-drag-out, loud noise, mayhem, melee, noise, noise and shouting, outcry, pandemonium, passion, pell-mell, pother, racket, rage, rampage, rattle, rhubarb, riot, roar, rough-and-tumble, roughhouse, row, ruckus, ruction, rumble, run-in, scramble, scrap, scrimmage, set-to, shindig, shindy, shivaree, stir, storminess, tempestuousness, thunder, thunderclap, tintamarre, to-do, trouble, tumult, tumultuousness, turbulence, turmoil, uproar, upset, wildness, zeal, zealousness