bump|er

bump|er
bump|er «BUHM puhr», noun, adjective, verb.
–n.
1. any device that protects against damage by bumping.
2. a bar or bars of metal across the front and back of a car, bus, or truck, that protects it from being damaged if bumped: »

Trucks had been observed moving bumper to bumper, with lights on, in an unprecedentedly large movement…southwards (Manchester Guardian Weekly).

3. a cup or glass filled to the brim: »

... fill me a bumper, a bumper of claret (Thomas Love Peacock).

4. Informal. something unusually large of its kind: »

His crop of potatoes was a bumper.

5. Cricket. a fast ball that rears off the ground, usually short pitched and to the danger of the batsman.
6. a marine fish with a compressed body, common in the West Indies.
–adj.
unusually large; abundant: »

The farmer raised a bumper crop of wheat last year.

SYNONYM(S): outsize.
–v.t.
to fill to the brim.

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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