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tampers

tampers is the plural of tamper.

tampers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of tamper.

Meaning of tamper

Noun

tamper (plural tampers)

  1. A tool used to tamp something down, such as tobacco in a pipe.
  2. A railway vehicle used to tamp down ballast.
    Synonyms:
    ballast tamper, tamping machine
  3. An envelope of neutron-reflecting material in a nuclear weapon, used to delay the expansion of the reacting material and thus produce a longer-lasting and more energetic explosion.

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Questions about tampers

What is tampers the plural of?
Tampers is the plural of tamper.

Words near tampers in the dictionary

  1. tamperings
  2. tamperproof
  3. tamperproofed
  4. tamperproofing
  5. tamperproofs
  6. tampers
  7. Tampeño
  8. Tampeños
  9. Tampha
  10. tampicin
  11. Tampico

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tampers (page history and authors); tamper (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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