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Definition of Bummer
1. Noun. An experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing. "Having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"
2. Noun. A bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug.
Definition of Bummer
1. n. An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
Definition of Bummer
1. Noun. (obsolete) A forager. ¹
2. Noun. (US slang dated) An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger. ¹
3. Adjective. (comparative of bum#Adjective bum) ¹
4. Noun. (chiefly slang) A disappointment, a pity, a shame. ¹
5. Interjection. Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment). ¹
6. Noun. (British slang uncommon) homosexual male ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bummer
1. one that bums [n -S] - See also: bums
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bummer
Literary usage of Bummer
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The History of the Peloponnesian War by Thucydides, Henry Dale, Thomas Arnold (1873)
"... so that altogether there wero two hundred and fifty [ in service] in the course
of that ono bummer. And it was this, in conjunction with ..."
2. War Talks in Kansas by Commandery of the State of Kansas (1906)
"THE ARMY bummer. The bummer bore upon his person the proprietary trade-mark o£
the great United States. He was a creation of the American eagle, ..."
3. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"bummer. A worthless, lazy fellow. The word acquired a special meaning in the Civil
... 1856 'Pon my word I'm no bummer. I never ate a lunch in all my life ..."
4. Three Years Among the Working-classes in the United States During the War by James Dawson Burn (1865)
"... American Army Correspondent—The Prettiest Village in Georgia —Blotting-out a
City—Functions of the " bummer " iu the Northern Army —Wildness of American ..."
5. Sketches of Frontier and Indian Life on the Upper Missouri & Great Plains by Joseph Henry Taylor (1897)
"... bummer DAK. A FEW miles north of Omaha, Nebraska, on the river road, there
nestles on a plain near a low sloping bluff; the pretty little hamlet of ..."
6. Belgravia by Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1881)
"bummer did not stir; he merely said in a husky whisper, without taking hia ...
That's how it is bummer never says anything.' There was a fre.sh burst of ..."
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