Verb

(head)

*{{quote-book, year=1935, author= George Goodchild

, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5 , passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts and the subsidiary courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}

* 1988 September 12, New York Magazine , page 226

Good-Looking', Funny Guy — (Not funny-' looking , good guy), 36, Jewish, athletic.

Verb

(rummag)

(nautical) To arrange (cargo, goods, etc.) in the hold of a ship; to move or rearrange such goods.

(nautical) To search a vessel for smuggled goods.

To search something thoroughly and with disregard for the way in which things were arranged.

* Howell

Hesearcheth his pockets, and taketh his keys, and so rummageth all his closets and trunks.

* (Matthew Arnold) (1822-1888)

What schoolboy of us has not rummaged his Greek dictionary in vain for a satisfactory account!

* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington

, title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins. Elsewhere in Europe, government contracts and subsidies ensure that press barons will only defy the mighty so far.}}

To hastily search for something in a confined space and among many items by carelessly turning things over or pushing things aside.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=Philander went into the next room