bumper
Syllables: bump·erUK/ˈbʌmpə//ˈbʌmpəɹ/
bumper noun: someone or something that bumps.
Noun
bumper (plural bumpers)
- Someone or something that bumps.
- A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
- [T]hey now shook hands heartily, and drank bumpers of strong beer to healths which we think proper to bury in oblivion.1749, Henry Fielding, The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, volume (please specify |volume=I to VI), London: A[ndrew] Millar, […], →OCLC
- Pork ſucceeds to Beef, Pies to Puddings: The Cloth is remov'd, Madam, drench'd vvith a Bumper, drops a Courtſey, and departs; […]1756 February 3 (first performance), Samuel Foote, The Englishman Return’d from Paris, Being the Sequel to The Englishman in Paris. A Farce […], London: […] Paul Vaillant, […], published 1756, →OCLC...
- Anything large or successful.
- 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.
- A bouncer.
- A side wall of a pool table.
- A cylindrical object used (as a substitute for birds) to train dogs to retrieve.
- A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
- A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
- A woman's posterior, particularly one that is considered full and desirable.
- 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.
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- An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.
- A cigarette butt.
- In National Hunt racing, a flat race for horses that have not yet competed either in flat racing or over obstacles.
- A shoulder button on a gamepad.
- Synonym of gutter guard (“rail to prevent a ball from rolling into the gutter”).
- Synonyms:
- gutter guard
Adjective
bumper (not comparable)
Verb
bumper (third-person singular simple present bumpers, present participle bumpering, simple past and past participle bumpered)
- To drink from the vessels called bumpers.
bumper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
bumper in Hindi
- impact absorber on a vehicle
- बम्पर bampar
bumper in Tamil
- உயர்மிகு, ஏராளமான, காப்புத் தண்டு, முட்டுத் தாங்கி
bumper in Marathi
- बंपर, बम्पर
bumper in Urdu
- impact absorber on a vehicle
- بمپر bampar
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- bumper in Bengali
- বাম্পার, মদিরাপরিপূর্ণ পেয়ালা, মদিরাপরিপূর্ণ পাত্র, প্রচুর শস্যসম্পদ্
- bumper in Telugu
- బంపర్
- bumper in Malayalam
- വമ്പൻ, പടുകൂറ്റൻ, ഭീമൻ, സമൃദ്ധമായ
- bumper in Kannada
- ತಡೆಪಟ್ಟಿ, ಆಘಾತರೋಧಕ, ಸಮೃದ್ಧಿಯಾದ, ಹುಲುಸಾದ
- bumper in Punjabi
- ਬੰਪਰ
- bumper in Gujarati
- બમ્પર, બંપર
- bumper in Odia
- ବମ୍ପର, ବମ୍ପର୍
- bumper in Nepali
- बम्पर, बंपर
- bumper in Arabic
- مِصَدّ miṣadd
- bumper in Persian
- سپر separ
- bumper in Thai
- กันชน gan-chon
- bumper in Vietnamese
- hãm xung, đỡ va
- bumper in Myanmar
- ဘန်ပါ bhanpa
Examples of bumper in a sentence
- We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
- Yet can I gulp a bumper to thy name,— / O smile among the shades, for this is fame!1818, John Keats, Written in the cottage where Burns was born:
- Horrocks served myself and my pupils with three little glasses of wine, and a bumper was poured out for my lady.1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 8, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:
- Sydney Carton drank the punch at a great rate; drank it by bumpers, looking at his friend.1859, Charles Dickens, chapter XI, in A Tale of Two Cities, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:
- Pour, oh, pour the pirate sherry; / Fill, O fill the pirate glass; / And, to make us more than merry, / Let the pirate bumper pass.1879, W[illiam] S[chwenck] Gilbert, Arthur Sullivan, composer, The Pirates of Penzance […], Philadelphia: J.M. Stoddart & Co., published...
Synonyms of bumper
Forms of bumper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | bumpers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | bumpers |
| present participle | bumpering |
| past participle | bumpered |
| past | bumpered |
Origin of bumper
From bump + -er.
Words formed from bumper
Phrases with bumper
Words that rhyme with bumper
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Questions about bumper
- What does bumper mean?
- Bumper means someone or something that bumps.
- What is bumper in Hindi?
- Bumper in Hindi is बम्पर (bampar). See Bumper meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use bumper in a sentence?
- We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.
- What part of speech is bumper?
- Bumper can be a noun, an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce bumper?
- Bumper is pronounced /ˈbʌmpə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of bumper?
- The plural of bumper is bumpers.
Words near bumper in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: bumper (page history and authors); bumper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumper (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bumper (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bumper (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); bumper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bumper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bumper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); bumper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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