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thumper¹

  • /ˈθʌmpə/ UK
  • /ˈθʌmpɚ/ US

Rhymes with -ʌmpə(ɹ)

noun thumpers

  1. countable, uncountable One who thumps.
  2. countable, slang, uncountable A single-cylinder engine, especially four-stroke engines or those with large engine displacements.
  3. uncountable A drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others banging on a table.
  4. countable, slang, uncountable Something big, such as a lie; a whopper.
  5. UK, countable, slang, uncountable A kind of slam-door train introduced in the late 1950s.
  6. US, countable, slang, uncountable The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
  7. countable, uncountable A short rope for beating disobedient sled dogs. This [argument] was about the use of the thumper to control dog teams, and perhaps the unique living conditions of a polar base caused both sides to shift from an initial disagreement to positions more extreme than the ones they would have reached in the wider world outside.
  8. countable, informal, uncountable A strong adherent to a religion or ideology. But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.
  9. countable, informal, uncountable A track with a thumping beat. This late-1979 disco thumper is set to a driving beat with a memorable refrain that proved so enduring that American icon Madonna sampled it for her 2005 hit 'Hung Up', from her album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

    Similar: stomper

Thumper²

proper noun Thumpers

  1. A surname.

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@misc{thumper_2026,
  title = {thumper},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/thumper},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}