bumper

Plural: bumpers

Noun

• a glass filled to the brim (especially as a toast)
  • "we quaffed a bumper of ale"
• a mechanical device consisting of bars at either end of a vehicle to absorb shock and prevent serious damage
• Someone or something that bumps.
• A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Adj

• Wonderfully large; (as if) filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.

Verb

Verb Forms: bumpered, bumpering, bumpers

• To fill a drinking vessel to the brim.
• To drink from the vessels called bumpers.

Examples

• a bumper collection of silly jokes
• He wanted to BUMPER his score to the top with a final high-value word.
• The company sells screw-on rubber bumpers and feet.
• We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.

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