Meaning

Someone or something that bumps..

Definitions by Sense

1. Someone or something that bumps.
2. (obsolete) A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
3. (colloquial, now chiefly attributive) Anything large or successful.
4. (automotive) Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender.
5. Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact.
6. (cricket) A bouncer.
7. (billiards) A side wall of a pool table.
8. A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.

Example Sentences

[T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.

Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]

Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,— / O smile among the shades, for this is fame!

Mr. Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.

Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.

Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; / Fill, O fill the pirate glass; / And, to make us more than merry, / Let the pirate bumper pass.

The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.

a bumper collection of silly jokes

Word Forms

• bumpers
• bumpering
• bumpered

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Use bumper when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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