Usually means: Hurry; swift movement or action.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rush, rush: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. rush, rush: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. rush, rush: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. rush: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Rush, rush: Vocabulary.com
  6. Rush, rush: Wordnik
  7. rush: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. RUSH, Rush, rush: Wiktionary
  9. rush: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. rush: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. rush: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Rush, rush: Dictionary.com
  13. rush (n.), rush (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. rush: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
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  16. Rush: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. rush: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. rush: Rhymezone
  19. rush: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. rush: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Rush: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  22. rush: Free Dictionary
  23. rush: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Rush: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. rush: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. rush: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rush (American football), rush: Legal dictionary

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. RUSH: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. rush: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Rush (drug), rush: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. RUSH: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. rush: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Rush: Easton Bible

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Botanical Terms (No longer online)

Slang (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. rush, rush, rush: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. rush: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. Rush: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  5. the rush: Urban Dictionary

Sports (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Rush: Dan's Poker
  2. Rush (Long or Short): Croquet
  3. Football Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Sports Terms (No longer online)
  5. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  6. Texas Hold'em Dictionary (No longer online)
  7. Rush: Sports Definitions

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Any of several stiff plants of the genus Juncus, or the family Juncaceae, having hollow or pithy stems and small flowers, and often growing in marshes or near water.
noun:  The stem of such plants used in making baskets, mats, the seats of chairs, etc.
noun:  The merest trifle; a straw.
noun:  A wick.
noun:  A sudden forward motion.
noun:  A surge.
noun:  General haste.
noun:  A rapid, noisy flow.
noun:  (military) A sudden attack; an onslaught.
noun:  (video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.
noun:  (contact sports) The act of running at another player to block or disrupt play.
noun:  (American football, dated) A rusher; a lineman.
noun:  A sudden, brief exhilaration, for instance the pleasurable sensation produced by a stimulant.
noun:  (university slang) A regulated period of recruitment in fraternities and sororities.
noun:  (university slang) A person attempting to join a fraternity or sorority as part of a rush.
noun:  (US, dated, university slang) A perfect recitation.
noun:  (croquet) A roquet in which the object ball is sent to a particular location on the lawn.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive) To hurry; to perform a task with great haste, often not properly or without thinking carefully.
verb:  (intransitive) To flow or move forward rapidly or noisily.
verb:  (intransitive, soccer) To dribble rapidly.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, contact sports) To run directly at another player in order to block or disrupt play.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move or act with unusual haste.
verb:  (intransitive, military) To make a swift or sudden attack.
verb:  (military) To swiftly attack without warning.
verb:  (video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.
verb:  (transitive) To transport or carry quickly.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, croquet) To roquet an object ball to a particular location on the lawn.
verb:  (transitive or intransitive, university slang) To attempt to join a fraternity or sorority, often involving a hazing or initiation process.
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
verb:  (intransitive, music) To play at a faster tempo than one is supposed to or than the other musicians one is playing with, or to inadvertently gradually increase tempo while one is playing.
adjective:  Performed with, or requiring urgency or great haste, or done under pressure, especially if therefore done badly.
noun:  An English surname originating as an occupation for someone who made things from rushes.
noun:  A placename
noun:  A coastal town in Fingal, County Dublin, Ireland.
noun:  An unincorporated community in El Paso County, Colorado, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Boyd County and Carter County, Kentucky, United States.
noun:  A town in Monroe County, New York, United States.
noun:  A number of townships, in Illinois, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio and Pennsylvania, United States, listed under Rush Township.
noun:  (computing) A dialect of the programming language PL/I.
noun:  Ellipsis of Rush County. [One of 92 counties in Indiana, United States. County seat: Rushville. Named after Benjamin Rush.]

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