Rumpus


noun, plural rumpuses.
1.
a noisy or violent disturbance; commotion; uproar:
There was a terrible rumpus going on upstairs.
2.
a heated controversy:
a rumpus over the school-bond issue.
noun (pl) -puses
1.
a noisy, confused, or disruptive commotion
rumpus

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