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dumper noun- a toilet UK
- A final-reel splatterfest that took out America’s current sweethearts would mean there’d be two whole reasons to see the Jen [Jennifer Lopez] and Ben [Affleck] Go Down the Dumper flick. — The Guardian, 8 August 2003
- an athlete who dumps a game, intentionally losing US
- Reams of copy have already been written on big time basketball’s latest smellero, involving enough Toledo and Bradley University cagers to make up a first string of “dumpers” and a second string of “dumpers.” — San Francisco Call Bulletin, p. 11, 30 July 1951
- C.C.N.Y.’s Ed Warner (right, rear) one of the dumpers, had soft job waiting on tables. [Caption] — Life, p. 38, 5 March 1951
- — Steve Rushin, Pool Cool, p. 12, 1990
- a person who takes sexual pleasure from sadistic acts US
- That’s what one dumper told me. Boy, you should have heard him talking. “Honey,” he says, “all I want to do is beat you up a little bit and then I’ll be finished.” — John M. Murtagh and Sara Harris, Cast the First Stone, p. 155, 1957
- I have always refused to take “dumpers,” men who beat you. — Sara Harris, The Lords of Hell, p. 72, 1967
- — Kenn “Naz” Young, Naz’s Underground Dictionary, p. 26, 1973
- an uninspiring, boring experience UK
- — Tom Hibbert, Rockspeak!, p. 55, 1983
- a large and dangerous wave that breaks suddenly AUSTRALIA, 1920
- — Grant W. Kuhns, On Surfing, p. 116, 1963
- — Bill Hornadge, The Ugly Australian, p. 216, 1975
- — Jim Ramsay, Cop It Sweet!, p. 33, 1977
- The curling, twelve foot dumpers would raise him up, hold him in breath-taking suspension and then dash him down the watery slope to the very depths. — Lance Peters, The Dirty Half-Mile, p. 52, 1979
- — Gretel Killeen, Hot Buns and Ophelia get shipwrecked, p. 74, 2001
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