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the low growl the world makes right before it changes its mind
means To make a deep, continuous, rolling sound — like distant thunder or an empty stomach — or, informally, to fight or to expose something hidden.
from A Middle English word, 'rumblen,' almost certainly imitative — coined from the sound itself, the way 'grumble,' 'mumble,' and 'tumble' all carry that low rolling growl in the 'umble.' It's likely related to similar Dutch and Low German forms (Dutch 'rommelen'), all of them echoing the same deep noise. The street-fight sense ('a rumble') is 20th-century American slang, the brawl named for the menacing low roar that precedes it.
- gut talk
- Stomach rumbles even when empty, just clearing the pipes
- big screen
- Movie theaters tune subwoofers to feel rumble in your chest
- thunder lag
- Rumble means lightning struck miles away, not overhead
- street slang
- 1950s gangs called brawls rumbles, made famous by West Side Story
- earthquake warning
- Animals often sense the rumble before humans feel anything
rumble in the jungle — muhammad ali vs george foreman boxing match, kinshasa zaire, october 30 1974
rumble fish — s.e. hinton novel 1975, adapted into francis ford coppola film 1983
rumble strips — textured road surface on highways worldwide that vibrates vehicles to alert drowsy drivers