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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hummer \Hum"mer\, n.
One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
--Ainsworth.(Zo["o]l.) A humming bird.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, agent noun from hum (v.). Meaning "energetic person or thing" is 1680s; that of "excellent person or thing" is slang from 1907. As short for Humvee, attested from 1983.
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who hums. 2 (context informal English) A humvee. 3 (context informal English) A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier. 4 (context informal English) A hummingbird. 5 (context informal English) A humdinger. 6 (context baseball English) A fastball. 7 (context slang English) fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Hummer was a brand of trucks and SUVs, first marketed in 1992 when AM General began selling a civilian version of the M998 Humvee. In 1998, General Motors (GM) purchased the brand name and marketed three vehicles: the original Hummer H1, based on the military Humvee, as well as the H2 and H3 models that were based on smaller, civilian-market GM platforms.
By 2008, Hummer's viability in the economic downturn was being questioned, and it was placed under review by GM management. Rather than being transferred to Motors Liquidation Company as part of the GM bankruptcy in 2009, the brand was retained by GM, in order to investigate its sale.
In 2009, a Chinese manufacturer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, announced that it would acquire Hummer, pending government approvals, but later withdrew its bid. On February 24, 2010, Reuters reported that the Chinese ministry of commerce had prevented the deal, although a ministry spokesperson denied rejecting the application, which had been stalled for eight months. At the end of February, General Motors announced it would begin dismantling the Hummer brand.
Although the automaker announced two days later that it had been approached with new offers, by April 2010, any sale became unlikely, as inventory was depleted and Hummer dealerships began shutting down. After filling a rental-car fleet order, the last Hummer H3 rolled off the line at Shreveport on May 24, 2010.
The original maker of Hummer, AM General, lost their bid to build the HMMWV's replacement for the U.S. military in 2015.
Hummer was a division of General Motors.
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Hummer was a short-lived Canadian indie rock band formed in 1995 in Toronto. The band included The Lowest of the Low frontman Ron Hawkins on bass. The band released one album, Electrically Operated Product, in 1997.
Hawkins subsequently went on to form Ron Hawkins and the Rusty Nails, while Dave MacKinnon and Brian Poirier launched their own project, FemBots.
"Hummer" is the second single by Foals and is the first single with Yannis Philippakis on lead vocals (the previous lead vocalist was Andrew Mears). It was released on 12 March 2007. It was recorded and mixed by producer Gareth Parton at the Fortress and Metropolis recording studios, London. It was released as a digital download and on vinyl on 23 April 2007.
Although initially released as a non-album single, it was added as a bonus track to later editions of Foals's debut album Antidotes.
The song was featured in the first series of Skins.
Hummer is an arcade racing game released by Sega in 2009. The game runs on the Sega Lindbergh platform. There are 2 game modes: Time attack mode and Race mode. In the Race mode, players driving Hummer to race against other opponents. It is possible for up to 8 people to race at the same time. Boosts can be used to speed up during the race.
Hummer is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
- Craig Hummer, American sports announcer
- Ian Hummer (born 1990), American basketball player
- John Hummer (born 1948), American basketball player
- Julia Hummer (born 1980), German actress and singer
- T. R. Hummer (born 1950), American poet, writer and academic
Usage examples of "hummer".
I want you to make certain that Therm and his bunch check out Hummers from the motor pool and that they have a good radio with them.
A combat vehicle like an outsized, lightly armored jeep, a hummer could carry quite a sting, up to and including pop-up launchers for TOW or Hellfire antitank missiles meant to take out much tougher targets than Mobile One.
Trinity River, now boasting a set of rapids it had never had before, Bernoulli recovered his detonator, got in his Hummer, and drove south.
As Travis pulled the Hummer in beside the rusting hulk of a pickup truck, a dog I later learned was a black-and-tan coonhound lifted his head and bounded down the steps.
Hundreds of Rebels in tanks and trucks and Jeeps and Hummers and self-propelled artillery surged forward, moving across the Oregon line into Northern California.
Harmony Hummers, get together to sing more popular stuff and they perform at various local bashes fetes and things.
Hummer, the colonel lit the main fuse for the Firebirds and swung the pod at the companions.
Hummers raked the defenders with machine guns, the pirates replying with flintlocks, cannons and crossbows.
Adrenaline pounded in his veins, giving the exhausted sec man the needed strength to stand and watch the convoy of Hummers appear around a curve in the road.
SILHOUETTED by the cold moonlight, something flew above the convoy of Hummers tearing along the jungle road, but Mitchum paid it no attention.
The fiery back-blast silhouetted the sec men and Hummers parked on the approaching cliff in stark clarity.
As his fury ebbed, the man turned toward the line of Hummers parked nearby.
Soon, they could land the Hummers and drive into the jungle after the outlanders.
Releasing the chains holding the Hummers in place, the sec man started the war wags, while the navvies tossed in bags of ammo, grens and the small portable Firebirds.
Wary of the lolling deck, the sailors drove the Hummers down the inclined metal into the shoals and then successfully onto the beach.