Usually means: Falls or rolls suddenly, clumsily.
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We found 12 dictionaries that define the word tumbles:

General (9 matching dictionaries)
  1. tumbles: Merriam-Webster
  2. tumbles: Collins English Dictionary
  3. tumbles: Vocabulary.com
  4. Tumbles, tumbles: Wordnik
  5. tumbles: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tumbles: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  7. tumbles: TheFreeDictionary.com
  8. tumbles: Wiktionary
  9. tumbles: Dictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumbles: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumbles: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. tumbles: Idioms

(Note: See tumble as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Tumble)

noun:  A fall, especially end over end.
noun:  A disorderly heap.
noun:  (informal) An act of sexual intercourse.
verb:  (intransitive) To fall end over end; to roll over and over.
verb:  (transitive) To throw headlong.
verb:  (intransitive) To perform gymnastics such as somersaults, rolls, and handsprings.
verb:  (intransitive) To drop rapidly.
verb:  (transitive) To smooth and polish (e.g. gemstones or pebbles) by means of a rotating tumbler.
verb:  (intransitive, informal) To have sexual intercourse.
verb:  (intransitive) To move or rush in a headlong or uncontrolled way.
verb:  To muss, to make disorderly; to tousle or rumple.
verb:  (cryptocurrencies) To obscure the audit trail of funds by means of a tumbler.
verb:  (obsolete, UK, slang) To comprehend; often in tumble to.
noun:  A village in Llannon community, Carmarthenshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN5411).
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