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Definition of Bummers
1. bummer [n] - See also: bummer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bummers
Literary usage of Bummers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and by David Macrae (1870)
"These foraging parties, which came to be known in the South as " Sherman's
bummers," swarmed over the whole country in troops, fighting when it was ..."
2. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"1862 A great majority of the bummers, who so long infested this city, have either
left or ... Some are whiskey bummers, some are boarding- house bummers, ..."
3. The Secrets of the Great City: A Work Descriptive of the Virtues and the by James Dabney McCabe (1868)
"THE bummers. PROM a recent number of the New York Times, we take the following
excellent description of this class, which is peculiar to the Metropolis:— ..."
4. Southern History of the War by Edward Alfred Pollard (1866)
"His organization of " bummers."— The column of smoke.—The Yankees at Winnsboro'.—More
of the enemy's atro cities.—Sherman's feint upon Charlotte. ..."
5. Hospital Life in the Army of the Potomac by William Howell Reed (1866)
"Hospital bummers. — Track, the Maine Artillerist — A German Soldier of the Third
Generation. — Cheerfulness in the Hospital.—The Death of Hartman. ..."
6. Martyrdom in Missouri: A History of Religious Proscription, the Seizure of by William M. Leftwich (1870)
"and Embarrassed Churches and Ecclesiastical "bummers"—Church Extension in the
South— Letters and Extracts—Bishop Clark and " Church Extension Meetings"—Does ..."
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