tumble
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
tumble (plural tumbles)
- A fall, especially end over end.
- I took a tumble down the stairs and broke my tooth.
- A disorderly heap.
- 2008, David Joutras, A Ghost in the World (page 55)
- When at last we stopped in a tumble of bodies on the grass, laughing, and in Dad's case, out of breath, we were like little kids (I mean 5 or 6! After all I am 12!) at the end of a playground session.
- 2008, David Joutras, A Ghost in the World (page 55)
- (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
, John Betjeman, Group Life: Letchworth - Wouldn't it be jolly now, / To take our Aertex panters off / And have a jolly tumble in / The jolly, jolly sun?
- French: culbute
- German: Sturz, Fall, Überschlag, Absturz, Purzelbaum, Rolle
- Italian: caduta
- Portuguese: tombo
- Russian: паде́ние
- Spanish: caída
tumble (tumbles, present participle tumbling; past and past participle tumbled)
- (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll.
- He who tumbles from a tower surely has a greater blow than he who slides from a molehill.
, Robert W. Chambers, The Younger Set - “Heavens!” exclaimed Nina, “the blue-stocking and the fogy!—and yours are pale blue, Eileen!—you’re about as self-conscious as Drina—slumping there with your hair tumbling à la Mérode! Oh, it's very picturesque, of course, but a straight spine and good grooming is better. […]”
- (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
- (intransitive) To roll over and over.
- (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
- Share prices tumbled after the revelation about the company's impending failure.
- (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
- (transitive) To smooth and polish a rough surface on relatively small parts.
- To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
- to tumble a bed
- (colloquial) To suddenly realise, to get wind of.
- (cryptocurrency) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
- (to have sexual intercourse) bump uglies, have sex, roll around; see also Thesaurus:copulate
- (to make disorderly) mess up, touse
- French: dégringoler, culbuter
- German: stolpern, herunterstürzen, herunterfallen, sich überschlagen, herumfallen, rollen, purzeln, taumeln, stürzen, umstürzen, fallen, walken
- Italian: cadere, precipitare, rovinare, crollare, ruzzolare
- Portuguese: cair
- Russian: ру́шиться
- Spanish: caer, revolverse
- German: purzeln
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