thumper
/ˈθʌmpɚ/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.45 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A single-cylinder engine, especially four-stroke engines or those with large engine displacements.
Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
A drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others banging on a table.
Uncountable
noun
A kind of slam-door train introduced in the late 1950s.
British usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
noun
The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report).
American usage; Countable; Slang; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "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."
- "Putin’s closest electoral competitor is the Communist leader Gennady Zyuganov – a serial election loser. This would be his fourth defeat. Two other candidates, right-wing table thumper Vladimir Zhirinovsky and left-leaning Sergey Mironov have also run and lost spectacularly in the past."
- "These testosterone thumpers have repackaged and exaggerated the study, with a credulity born of zealotry, into articles with shitposty titles like “Trust The Science: Study Links Left-Wing Politics to Lower Testosterone,” casting it as hard proof of their hormonal theories of healthy politics."
- "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."
Etymology
Etymology tree English thump Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English thumper From thump + -er.
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈθʌmpɚ/
- British English: /ˈθʌmpə/