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bummer noun- a male homosexual UK, 1967
Also known as a “bummer boy”. - His representative on earth was a barefaced liar and a bummer to boot. — Tim Fountain, Rude Britannia, p. 11, 2008
- a disappointing or depressing event US
- — Miss Cone, The Slang Dictionary (Hawthorne High School), 1965
- But then we came outside and saw all those clippings about us, pasted up like advertisements. Man, it was a bummer, it wasn’t right. — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 89, 1966
- If you consider that the sheer number of beautiful people struggling against the inclement weather, and basic needs of survival, turned the festival into a Nation dedicated to victory, then the bummers get put in quite a different perspective. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 4, 1969
- As desperate as she was for someone to help her drive, and generally hassle the whole bummer of a scene on to St. Louis, Estelle wished she was by herself again. — Gurney Norman, Divine Right’s Trip (Last Whole Earth Catalog), p. 87, 1971
- I wish I could honestly say that without your gift I would’ve had one bad bummer of a Christmas[.] — Tom Robbins, Another Roadside Attraction, p. 162, 1971
- Man, what a bummer. Ten days and a wakeup and I’m still dealing wid this shit. — Platoon, 1986
- He’s the one responsible for all those bummers you’ve had. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 73, 1987
- It’s a bummer about your party, man. — Dazed and Confused, 1993
- CHER: I failed. TAI: Oh, bummer. — Clueless, 1995
- What a bummer, we’ll have to miss the Anal Exciters gig[.] — Stewart Home, Sex Kick[britpulp], p. p.238, 1999
- a bad experience with LSD or another hallucinogen US
- Is he going to put acid in everything consumable? Does he want to create a big freak out, a big bummer? — The San Francisco Oracle, 1966
- Some of them had terrible bummer–bummer was the Angels’ term for a bad trip on a motorcyle and very quickly it became the hip world’s term for a bad trip on LSD. — Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, p. 159, 1968
- Whatever it was, I had a bummer. One of those rare acid trips when everything caves in. I learned enough shit from it, through, that maybe it wasn’t such a bummer after all. — Abbie Hoffman, Woodstock Nation, p. 5, 1969
- Bummers were when the acid had something in it that didn’t agree with you. — Eve Babitz, Eve’s Hollywood, p. 234, 1974
- He was having a paranoid bummer while driving a rented Mustang with a U-haul trailer full of kilos up from Tijuana on the freeway and was stopped by the cops — Stephen Gaskin, Amazing Dope Tales, p. 65, 1980
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 32, 1996
- Crisis-level bummers are less likely to happen on low doses of acid–100 mikes or less–than on high doses of 150 mikes or more. — Cam Cloud, The Little Book of Acid, p. 22, 1999
- a beggar, a tramp, a bum US, 1855
- Where do you come off knowing a bummer like Billings? — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 29, 1963
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