Definition of rush

• n. - A name given to many aquatic or marsh-growing endogenous plants with soft, slender stems, as the species of Juncus and Scirpus.
• n. - The merest trifle; a straw.
• v. i. - To move forward with impetuosity, violence, and tumultuous rapidity or haste; as, armies rush to battle; waters rush down a precipice.
• v. i. - To enter into something with undue haste and eagerness, or without due deliberation and preparation; as, to rush business or speculation.
• v. t. - To push or urge forward with impetuosity or violence; to hurry forward.
• v. t. - To recite (a lesson) or pass (an examination) without an error.
• n. - A moving forward with rapidity and force or eagerness; a violent motion or course; as, a rush of troops; a rush of winds; a rush of water.
• n. - Great activity with pressure; as, a rush of business.
• n. - A perfect recitation.
• n. - A rusher; as, the center rush, whose place is in the center of the rush line; the end rush.
• n. - The act of running with the ball.