Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One that hums.
- noun Informal A hummingbird.
- noun Baseball A fastball.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A calling device employed in telephony in place of the magnetic call-bell; a buzzer.
- noun One who or that which hums.
- noun One who or that which excels in any quality, especially in general energy or speed.
- noun In ornithology, a humming-bird.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
- noun (Zoöl.) A humming bird.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun slang
fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth byhumming . - noun slang
humvee - noun slang
hummingbird - noun slang
humdinger - noun baseball A
fastball .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- noun a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
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Examples
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A vegetarian in a hummer is better than a meat eater on a bike.
Waldo Jaquith - On the efficiency of buying locally produced goods. 2007
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Maybe it's time for another impeachment for lying, for lying about a hummer is one thing, but lying about scandal is quite another!
Slow take David 2006
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They didn’t really have much choice though, all the other big car companies were entering the compo, and the hummer is the damocles’ sword hanging over any eclology claims by GM.
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Damn! If Bush can get a hummer from a guy wearing a freakin’ sombrero, at least he’s got SOMETHING going for him.
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I believe your hummer is a ruby throated as they are really the only hummingbird in the east.
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Robin, the only thing dumber than a hummer is a stretch hummer.
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It was the crew who called the hummer home during the invasion who came up with the idea to rebuild it from the ground up on the "Overhaulin '" television show and donate the proceeds to charity.
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Run it on corn oil. the hummer is a good start, there are plenty more where it came from, one model at a time is one way, what we really need to do as a people is to redefine our needs.
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Run it on corn oil. the hummer is a good start, there are plenty more where it came from, one model at a time is one way, what we really need to do as a people is to redefine our needs.
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To learn more about Disqus and its features, the hummer is a good start, there are plenty more where it came from, one model at a time is one way, what we really need to do as a people is to redefine our needs.
sionnach commented on the word hummer
I didn't realize that Hummers were now sufficiently advanced to be able to fly as well. I shall dash right out and buy one. And I shall call it Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. It will be my fine four-fendered friend. And I will stock it with toot sweets.
January 1, 2008
yarb commented on the word hummer
Also, a hickey.
January 1, 2008
seanahan commented on the word hummer
Also, ..., well, never mind.
January 2, 2008
john commented on the word hummer
"His rock origins and lack of classical training raised doubts at the start; some established composers considered him a 'hummer'—Hollywood slang for a would-be composer who can’t read music and relies on ghostwriters. (Charlie Chaplin was a hummer.)"
The New Yorker, Oscar Scores, by Alex Ross, March 9, 1998
April 28, 2008
mollusque commented on the word hummer
She could borrow, perhaps, his old sedan though he might not like the notion (pointing to a nondescript youth who was waiting for her on the sidewalk). He had just bought a heavenly Hummer to go places with her.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 138
June 13, 2009
hernesheir commented on the word hummer
To begin to neigh. - an old provincial term from the south of England.
May 2, 2011
sionnach commented on the word hummer
Oh, you see that's just plain silly. It's quite sufficient to have the verb "to neigh"; there's no conceivable reason to have a special verb for starting the process. One can just say "Gluebones cleared his horsey throat, because he was feeling a bit catarrhy ...."
May 2, 2011
hobbyhorse commented on the word hummer
Neigh.
May 2, 2011
blafferty commented on the word hummer
I would like a verb for "to begin to speak."
May 2, 2011