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What (who) is rump - definition

WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Rump (disambiguation); RUMP

rump         
(rumps)
1.
The rump of a group, organization, or country consists of the members who remain in it after the rest have left. (mainly BRIT)
The rump of the party does in fact still have considerable assets...
N-SING: with supp
2.
An animal's rump is its rear end.
The cows' rumps were marked with a number.
N-COUNT: usu poss N
3.
Rump or rump steak is meat cut from the rear end of a cow.
N-UNCOUNT
rump         
¦ noun
1. the hind part of the body of a mammal or the lower back of a bird.
chiefly humorous a person's buttocks.
2. a small or unimportant remnant.
Derivatives
rumpless adjective
Origin
ME: prob. of Scand. origin; cf. Dan. and Norw. rumpe 'backside'.
Rump         
·noun The hind or tail end; a fag-end; a remnant.
II. Rump ·noun The end of the backbone of an animal, with the parts adjacent; the buttock or buttocks.
III. Rump ·noun Among butchers, the piece of beef between the sirloin and the aitchbone piece. ·see ·Illust. of Beef.

Wikipedia

Rump

Rump may refer to:

  • Rump (animal)
    • Buttocks
  • Rump steak, slightly different cuts of meat in Britain and America
  • Rump kernel, software run in userspace that offers kernel functionality in NetBSD
Examples of use of rump
1. The Republicans put the "rump" into rump session yesterday.
2. A rump of semi–criminal mujahideen are still active but pose no threat to the state.
3. The rump legislators lacked the services of the House chaplain, so Rep.
4. Now, only a criminalised rump of violent men remains in both countries.
5. They fear being left with a rump mini–state bereft of oil.