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Meaning: (originallyCanada,US,slang,idiomatic)Theforcibleejectionof someone, such as abumor ahobo, from anestablishment.1911March, Wm. Hamilton Osborne, “Blowing the Crowd”, inAmbition: A Journal of Inspiration to Self Help, volume 9, number 8:"I didnt' think you fellows'd put thebum's rushonto me," he complained, "I ain't no bum."1948,Daily Labor Report - Issues 181-210, page326:It seems that the board appointed to look into alleged shortcomings of leftish Council leaders didn't like the "observers" who were brought along and decided to give them thebum's rush.1982,Paul Radley,My Blue-Checker Corker and Me, Sydney: Fontana/Collins, page96:At that point Duck got thebum’s rushfrom the organising Miss Bowen[.]2013, Chris Crowley, Jennifer Sacheck,Thinner This Year: A Younger Next Year Book:But suddenly he has a lucid interval . . . senses exactly what is going on. And he gives me this furious look. Astonishes me by saying, with all the old force, in his old, frightening growl: “This is abum's rush!”2013, Jack Mingo,Bees Make the Best Pets, page81:Early last September, some fellow beekeepers reported that the females in their bee colonies had already given thebum's rushto the males, the drones, kicking them out in the cold.
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