Definition of Bumper car

1. Noun. A small low-powered electrically powered vehicle driven on a special platform where there are many others to be dodged.

Exact synonyms: Dodgem
Generic synonyms: Vehicle

Definition of Bumper car

1. Noun. A small electric-powered vehicle encircled with rubber bumper, used in an amusement ride. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Bumper Car

bump keys
bump mapping
bump n' grind
bump off
bump supper
bump up
bumpable
bumpage
bumped
bumper-sticker
bumper-stickers
bumper-to-bumper
bumper cars
bumper crop
bumper crops
bumper guard
bumper jack
bumper sticker
bumper stickers
bumper to bumper
bumpered
bumperette
bumperettes
bumpering
bumpers
bumpf

Literary usage of Bumper car

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Maintenance of Way Standards on American Railways: And Rules and by Frederick Augustus Smith (1906)
"BUMPER (CAR STOP)—BALTIMORE AND OHIO RY. The upper figure on plate XLVII., page 102, shows a plan and the lower figure an elevation of the standard bumper ..."

2. Adventure Guide by Heather Stimmler-Hall (2004)
"... usually involves a bit of bumper-car action, and big trucks going down narrow streets often result in nicks, scratches, and crushed side-view mirrors. ..."

3. Punitive Damages: Tort Reform & Fda Defenses: Hearings Before the Committee edited by Orrin G. Hatch (1995)
"For example, in a 1987 Florida case, the plaintiff was injured on a bumper car ride at Disney World. The jury found that the plaintiff's husband was 86% ..."

4. Technological dictionary: English-Spanish and Spanish-English of Words and by Néstor Ponce de León (1920)
"... (rw) car bumper, car buffer. — de eje de к »aidera (a't.) trail plate. — it la excéntrica, stops of the eccentric, eccentric chuck, eccentric catch. ..."

5. The Rich Single Life: Abundance, Opportunity & Purpose in God by By Andrew Farmer (1998)
"1" Have you ever met bumper-car believers—Christians who learn mostly by accident? The only time the course of their lives changes is when they get hit by ..."

6. Bills Affecting Interstate Commerce (1916)
"You speak of a bumper car and to me that conveys no information at all, and I could not tell anyone else about it. Mr. ATTERBURY. ..."

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