Crossword clues for bumper
bumper
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bumper \Bum"per\, n. [A corruption of bumbard, bombard, a large drinking vessel.]
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A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast.
He frothed his bumpers to the brim.
--Tennyson. A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]
Bumper \Bump"er\, n.
That which bumps or causes a bump.
Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock, such as a metal or rubber rim extending from an object; a buffer.
(Motor vehicles) a protective guard device, usually of metal or rubber, attached horizontally to the front or rear of the frame of a vehicle, designed to resist or deaden a bump or shock, and to prevent damage to the main frame of the vehicle in low-velocity collisions.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1670s, "glass filled to the brim;" perhaps from notion of bumping as "large," or from a related sense of "booming" (see bump (v.)). Meaning "anything unusually large" is from 1759, slang. Agent-noun meaning "buffer of a car" is from 1839, American English, originally in reference to railway cars; 1901 of automobiles (in phrase bumper-to-bumper, in reference to a hypothetical situation; of actual traffic jams by 1908).
Wiktionary
a. (context colloquial English) large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo. n. 1 (context obsolete English) A drinking vessel filled to the brim. 2 (context colloquial English) Anything large or successful (now usually attributively). 3 (context automotive English) part at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender 4 Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact 5 Someone or something that bumps. 6 (context cricket English) A bouncer. 7 (context billiards English) A side wall of a pool table. 8 (context broadcasting English) A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements. 9 (context slang dated English) A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.
WordNet
adj. extraordinarily abundant; "a bumper crop"
n. 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
Wikipedia
A bumper is a structure attached or integrated to the front and rear of an automobile to absorb impact in a minor collision, ideally minimizing repair costs. Bumpers also have two safety functions: minimizing height mismatches between vehicles, and protecting pedestrians from injury. British inventor Frederick Simms invented bumpers in 1901.
In broadcasting, a commercial bumper, ident bumper or break-bumper (often shortened to bump) is a brief announcement, usually two to 15 seconds in length that can contain a voice over, placed between a pause in the program and its commercial break, and vice versa. The host, the program announcer or a continuity announcer states the title (if any) of the presentation, the name of the program, and the broadcast or cable network, though not necessarily in that order. On children's television networks, they are sometimes called external eyecatches due to the resemblance of internal eyecatches in anime and there is usually no voice over, but some bumpers do feature one. Bumper music, often a recurring signature or theme music segment, is nearly always featured. Bumpers can vary from simple text to short films.
Bumper or bumpers may refer to:
Usage examples of "bumper".
And he insisted on making amends for his imposture the day before an imposture, he pointed out, that had singularly failed due to their collective skills by ordering bumpers of arrack punch.
Ennis drove as they headed back to Troop D behind the tow-truck and the Buick, which rode on the clamp with its nose up and its rear bumper almost dragging on the road.
What made him sure this was the car we were looking for was the decal of a two-headed lion on the rear bumper.
Brown placed his deputies around the high school, where by mid-morning the traffic was bumper to bumper on the road to Rake Field.
I fired the engine and we moved off to a clatter of tins tipsy nerks had tied to the rear bumper.
Pausing, pilar looked around THE BEST WAY TO LOSE and spied one of the deckhands heading for the steps by the tall bumpers that led down to the barges.
The truck was an old Reo with a girder for a bumper, and as fire fighters ran from its path, the truck accelerated until it rammed through the burning fence and into the concrete barrier around the transformer.
Ford Taurus rental up to her aging blue Honda Civic with the Nurses Make It Better sticker on its rusting bumper.
He shot Suttle a grin, then returned to the car, concentrating on the bumpers and radiator grille.
Vista spraying untarred grit and tucking the Falcon into the garage in that infuriating way of hers, just not quite far enough to close the door on the bumper, the blades of grass are mixing long shadows with their cut tips and Rabbit stands by their one tree, a spindly maple tethered to the earth by guy wires, his palm sore from trimming the length of the walk with the hand-clippers.
The urethane bumper, so black and mat and trim, that gave Harry a small sensuous sensation whenever he touched the car home against the concrete parking-space divider at the place on the lot stencilled ANGSTROM, was pulled out from the frame.
They took away his pen and poured him several bumpers of usquebaugh, not forgetting to take a nip or two thelmselves.
At the foot of the berm, the sun flared off the chrome bumper of a buried truck.
It overshot me a little bit so I got to see the SAVE THE WHALES sticker on the rear bumper.
Outside the Panteon Nacional, the traffic was bumper to bumper, with countless others arriving on foot, climbing down from the hills above, walking along the dirt road in groups of three and four and more.