Definition of "rumbles" [rumbles]

• Plural form of rumble. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of rumble. (verb)

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• "Meanwhile the ICTR gravy train rumbles on in Arusha Tanzania, its African employees desperate to spin out its life as long as possible that they might squeeze the very last dollar out of it, legally or otherwise."
• "Meanwhile, their deadly foes, the "rumbles," are what the wombles would really be like -- giant rodents armed with "rumble sticks", lethal staff-weapons with a six-inch-nail embedded in the top, giant rats who live in a vast warren underneath "Rumbledon Common.""
• "How did we go from fistfights to "rumbles" with knives to guns?"