Usually means: Loud, continuous noise; disorderly fight.
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We found 34 dictionaries that define the word rumble:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. rumble: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. rumble: Merriam-Webster
  3. rumble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. rumble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. rumble: Collins English Dictionary
  6. rumble: Vocabulary.com
  7. Rumble, rumble: Wordnik
  8. rumble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Rumble, rumble: Wiktionary
  10. rumble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. rumble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. rumble: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Rumble, rumble: Dictionary.com
  14. rumble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. rumble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Rumble (film), Rumble (instrumental), Rumble (noise), Rumble (slamball team), Rumble, The Rumble (N2Deep album): Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Rumble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. rumble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. rumble: Rhymezone
  20. rumble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. rumble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. rumble: FreeDictionary.org
  23. rumble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. rumble: TheFreeDictionary.com

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rumble (disambiguation), rumble: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble, rumble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rumble: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Rumble [Fighter], rumble: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Rane Professional Audio Reference (No longer online)
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

(Note: See rumbled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A low, heavy, continuous sound, such as that of thunder or a hungry stomach.
noun:  (slang) A street fight or brawl.
noun:  A rotating cask or box in which small articles are smoothed or polished by friction against each other.
noun:  (dated) A seat for servants, behind the body of a carriage.
verb:  (intransitive) To make a low, heavy, continuous sound.
verb:  (transitive) To discover deceitful or underhanded behaviour.
verb:  (intransitive) To move while making a rumbling noise.
verb:  (slang, intransitive) To fight; to brawl.
verb:  (video games, intransitive, of a game controller) To provide haptic feedback by vibrating.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to pass through a rumble, or polishing machine.
verb:  (obsolete, intransitive) To murmur; to ripple.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Pike County, Indiana, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.

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