bumper
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (British) IPA: /ˈbʌmpə(ɹ)/
bumper (plural bumpers)
- Someone or something that bumps.
- (obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
- […] they now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.
- 1818, Keats, Written in the cottage where Burns was born:
- Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,—
- O smile among the shades, for this is fame!
- 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:
- Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, chapter 11
- Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.
- 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1973, p. 443:
- (colloquial, now, mostly, attributive) Anything large or successful.
- (automotive, US) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
- Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
- The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
- (cricket) A bouncer.
- (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
- (broadcasting) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
- (slang, dated) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
- (slang, Caribbean) A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
- (music) An extra musician (not notated in the score) who assists the principal French horn by playing less-exposed passages, so that the principal can save their 'lip' for difficult solos. Also applied to other sections of the orchestra.
- (pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
- French: pare-chocs
- German: Stoßstange
- Italian: paraurti
- Portuguese: para-choque, para-choques
- Russian: ба́мпер
- Spanish: parachoques, bómper (Central America), bumper (Panama), defensa (Mexico), paragolpes (Argentina),
- French: heurtoir
- Russian: бу́фер
- French: bande
bumper (not comparable)
- (colloquial) Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
- We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
bumper (bumpers, present participle bumpering; past and past participle bumpered)
- (obsolete, intransitive) To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
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