bummer

bummer

1. noun Someone or something that is unpleasant. This rain is a real bummer—will the sun ever come out again? Stop being such a bummer!
2. noun An unpleasant experience induced by drugs. No, I don't take that stuff anymore—last time was a real bummer.
3. adjective Describing someone or something unpleasant. Oh, it was a bummer party—you didn't miss anything.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

bummer

1. and bum trip n. a bad drug experience. (Drugs.) She almost didn’t get back from a bum trip. I had a real bummer on that stuff. I may quit yet.
2. n. a disagreeable thing or person. The game was a bummer you wouldn’t believe.
3. mod. disappointing; unpleasant. I had a real bummer day.
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions

bummer

An unsuccessful, unpleasant, or tedious experience; a failure. At first used to describe a bum trip, a frightening narcotic experience, it was quickly transferred to other kinds of experience. Both rely on the sense of bum meaning “bad,” a usage dating from the late 1800s (see bum steer). For example, “That ball game was a bummer; not only did it rain but we lost.”
The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer
See also:
  • birdturd
  • turd
  • wear (one's) apron high
  • high
  • high, wide, and handsome
  • angle
  • angling
  • mickey mouse
  • fire and brimstone
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Stanford University graduate and experienced businessman Moget Africa presents Moolah or Bummer! A Humorous Look at Finance and Investing, an amusing fusion of basic finance information and humor, in the forms of brief free- verse poems, each of which teaches the reader about a specific aspect of stock market and related interests.
The bummer is that the model tends to be "trailing-edge," admits Scott Stephens, the SCC's chief technology officer.
In the Vice Presidential debate when John Edwards outsmarmed even Aaron Brown and said to the Vice Cusser, "Your daughter is a lesbian," it sounded like, "Bummer, man, too bad about your straight man's burden." When John "Bad Man" Kerry echoed that sentiment, he violated Don't Ask, Don't Tell and tipped all the undecided-on-their-values voters into the red of embarrassment.
If however there are no toilets it's a bit of a bummer, don't you think?
He was a man about town, his mangy dogs Bummer and Lazarus at his side.
In the beginning, I'm sure that many merchants were still feeling a little ominous, for business in recent years hasn't been good, as we all know, and Black Friday has been a bummer.
Even so, ecstasy still can be a bummer. Unchallenged research has suggested that long-term ecstasy use erodes people's memories (SN: 5/5/01, p.
What a bummer, as some of my Gen X friends like to say.
Bummer! I have several 1911s and many ways to carry them.
Depressed prices and white spot disease have combined to make the shrimp operations a bummer for the company, which is based in North Haledon, New Jersey, USA, but has branches all over the world.
What a Bummer. Shock and pain disbelief As England fear the worst Seaman misses a vital save Looking for old Geoff Hurst The pride the joy The flag held high We were beginning to have some fun It seemed like the side of years gone by With Sven Eriksson I'll miss the moans The groans and sighs But most of all the hope And gone now is the prospect Of golden balls for Pope.
The three-sentence encomium at the base of the page included this: "Nucor's 8,400 employees are saddened by his passing, but committed to his principals." Bummer. Nucor and its late iconic leader deserved far better treatment than this; the following appears on p.