Crossword clues for dumps
dumps
- They're full of garbage
- Refuse sites
- One may be down in them
- Disposes of
- Breaks up with
- Writes a 'Dear John' letter
- Unhappy, down in the ...
- Unceremoniously breaks up with
- Sends a Dear John letter
- One can be down in them
- Garbage collection sites
- Ends a relationship with
- Down in the --
- Down in the __
- Depressed state of mind
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Dumps \Dumps\ (d[u^]mps), n. pl. a gloomy mental state; same as 2nd dump[1]; -- used mostly in the phrase ``in the dumps''.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"low spirits," 1520s, plural of dumpe "a fit of musing," possibly from Dutch domp "haze, mist," from Middle Dutch damp "vapor" (see damp (n.)).
Wiktionary
WordNet
n. an informal expression for a mildly depressed state; "in the dumps"; "have the mopes" [syn: mopes]
Usage examples of "dumps".
You know, there are some dumps where they make so much compost they sell it and the town makes a profit.
The huge dumps and rubbish-heaps at the outskirts of Stoneshell and Abrogate Green, the wastescape by the river in Griss Twist, all swarmed with wyrmen, squabbling and laughing, drinking from stagnant canals, fucking in the sky and on the earth.
Within a few years the local factories had gone but the dumps remained, and the winds that blew in from the sea could send a pestilential stench over the Tar into Petty Coil.
There were no magisters, Isaac remembered, no courts or punishment factories, no quarries and dumps to pack with Remade, no militia or politicians.