Usually means: Fall or roll end over end.
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General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. tumble: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. tumble: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tumble: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. tumble: Collins English Dictionary
  5. tumble: Vocabulary.com
  6. Tumble, tumble: Wordnik
  7. tumble: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. tumble: Wiktionary
  9. tumble: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. tumble: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. tumble: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. tumble: Dictionary.com
  13. tumble (v.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. tumble: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Tumble (TV series), Tumble: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Tumble: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. tumble: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. tumble: Rhymezone
  19. tumble: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. tumble: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. tumble: Free Dictionary
  22. tumble: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. tumble: Dictionary/thesaurus

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumble: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumble: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. tumble: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. tumble, tumble, tumble: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. tumble: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Tumble: Sports Definitions

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Fastener Terms (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  A fall, especially end over end.
noun:  A disorderly heap.
noun:  (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
verb:  (transitive) To throw headlong.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
verb:  To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
verb:  (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, slang) To comprehend; often in tumble to.
noun:  A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).

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