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bumper crop

Syllables: bump·er crop/ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/US/ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/

bumper crop noun: an excess of something; a large yield.

Noun

bumper crop (plural bumper crops)

  1. (idiomatic) An excess of something; a large yield.
    • The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year.
    • And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers.1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 10

bumper crop meaning in Tamil and Kannada

bumper crop in Tamil

பெரு விளைச்சல், பெரும் விளைச்சல், மிகுந்த மகசூல், மிகு விளைச்சல்

bumper crop in Kannada

ಹುಲುಸು ಬೆಳೆ, ಹೊಂಬೆಳೆ

Forms of bumper crop

pluralbumper crops

Origin of bumper crop

From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) + crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.

Questions about bumper crop

What does bumper crop mean?
Bumper crop means an excess of something; a large yield.
What is bumper crop in Tamil?
Bumper crop in Tamil is பெரு விளைச்சல், பெரும் விளைச்சல், மிகுந்த மகசூல். See Bumper crop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is bumper crop?
Bumper crop is a noun.
How do you pronounce bumper crop?
Bumper crop is pronounced /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/ (UK).
What is the plural of bumper crop?
The plural of bumper crop is bumper crops.

Words near bumper crop in the dictionary

  1. bumper bars
  2. bumper bullet
  3. bumper bullets
  4. bumper car
  5. bumper cars
  6. bumper crop
  7. bumper crops
  8. bumper jack
  9. bumper music
  10. bumper pool
  11. bumper sticker

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumper crop (page history and authors); bumper crop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); bumper crop (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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