Meanings
dumper1
plural dumpers
- One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.
- hobbiesA wave that knocks a surfer into the water.
The choice of a dumper can be disastrous for a comparatively unskilled surfer […]
1959, John Bloomfield, Know-how in the Surf, page 281 more example
[…] learning how to slide across the face of a wave is put to practical use when inadvertently catching a dumper (plunging wave).
2004, Australian Mathematical Society, Gazette, volume 31, page 249 - computingA program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.
Protected programs implement various measures of counteraction against debuggers, disassemblers, dumpers, and other hacker tools.
2005, Kris Kaspersky, Hacker Debugging Uncovered, page 51 - slangA person's buttocks.
My ass doesn't have to be that big, right? I'll kick you a few CCs and then you and me will take our brand-new dumpers and we'll just go, you know, flaunting around Copacabana Beach.
2025, Dave Chernin & John Chernin, Frank Is In a Coma, season 17, episode 2, spoken by Dee Reynolds (Kaitlin Olson)
Dumper2
Synonyms & antonyms
person who terminates the relationship
nountruck whose contents can be emptied without handling; the front end of the platform can be pneumatically raised so that the load is discharged by gravity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
French benne, conteneur
- bennedropper of refuse
- conteneurdropper of refuse
Hungarian dömper
- dömpervehicle
Italian dumper, ribaltabile
- dumpervehicle
- ribaltabiledropper of refuse
Spanish camión bañera
- camión bañeravehicle
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dumper. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dumper
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