Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which thumps.
- noun A thing or a person that is impressive by reason of hugeness or greatness; an unusually big fish, lie, etc.; a whopper.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who, or that which, thumps.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
thumps . - noun slang A single-cylinder engined motorcycle, especially those having a
four-stroke engine or largeengine displacement . - noun A particular
drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others' banging on a table.
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Examples
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But, if a bible-thumper is going to get ticked off about Pullman's attitudes and storytelling, this is the book they'd find the best ammunition.
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Hot-gospeller and Bible-thumper is the language he uses.
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Test hardware was a Sun X4500 (aka thumper) with 48 x 500GB disks.
Planet Sun perrin 2008
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Not considered a "thumper" when it comes to tackling, but shows explosion on contact.
USATODAY.com 2005
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The boys just roared at this threat, and one of them stealing behind the dude gave him a "thumper" with his toe where the exquisite's pants were drawn the tightest under his long coat.
Oscar the Detective Or, Dudie Dunne, The Exquisite Detective Harlan Page Halsey
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Fred and Philip both ran up to him, and sure enough he seemed to have got hold of a "thumper," as he called it, for his line was running about backwards and forwards through the water, while the willow wand which served him for a rod was bent half double.
Hollowdell Grange Holiday Hours in a Country Home George Manville Fenn 1870
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Palin/Gingrich or Palin/Hauckabee or Gingrich/Hackabee (two southern baptists ... one a redneck neocon hypocrite and the other a bible thumper which is perfect for the GOP vote).
The Nation: Top Stories John Nichols 2010
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Risky business: Metro area entrepreneurs launch start-ups despite tough economy Police arrest 70-year-old man in connection with casino bomb scare Lions 'Schwartz looking for a "thumper" at middle linebacker | detnews. com | The Detroit News
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Jim Schwartz admits he needs a "thumper" to fill it.
detnews.com - Local 2009
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Kate Lawson: Sunday Supper: This weekend, whirl up your own salad dressing Lions 'Schwartz looking for a "thumper" at middle linebacker | detnews. com | The Detroit News
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(n). In a moonshine still, the part between the boiler and the coil that distills mash and redistills the alcohol coming out of the boiler. Also called a "doubler," "thumper keg," or "thump barrel."
August 26, 2009
dinkum commented on the word thumper
WORD: thumper
DEFINITION: Any device that uses a weight-dropping technique, called "thumping", to generate the controlled seismic energy needed to perform both reflection and refraction seismic surveys. -- Wikipedia
(For more information, see the Wikipedia article "Seismic Source", especially the section subtitled "Thumper Truck".
<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_source >>
<< http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismic_source#Thumper_truck >>
Now used by fracking operators when prospecting for shale gas.
RELATED WORDS: thumping, thumper truck
EXAMPLE:
' Several Lee County residents reported recently seeing "thumper" trucks in the area, so named for the sound made when they clap a steel plate against the ground, using the reverberations to pinpoint potentially gas-rich underground rock formations and faults.'
-- Billy Ball. "Before fracking begins in N.C., Texas energy company investigates shale gas deposits in Lee County." INDYweek, September 25, 2013.
<< http://www.indyweek.com/indyweek/before-fracking-begins-in-nc-texas-energy-company-investigates-shale-gas-deposits-in-lee-county/Content?oid=3727262 >>
September 28, 2013