dumper

American  

[duhmp-er] / ˈdʌmp ər /

noun

• dumpers
  plural

1. a device, vehicle, etc., that dumps, especially a dump truck.

2. a person, company, etc., that offloads something unwanted, such as an excess of low-priced goods on the market or overly detailed negative feelings and experiences on another person.

3. a person or company that dumps garbage, especially without authorization or where not allowed.

4. Computers. a utility program that copies the contents of a file or of a computer's internal storage and prints, displays, or records it on an output medium, often at the time a program fails so that the data can be used for diagnostic purposes.

5. Computers. a program, such as a piece of malware or a utility used for pirating games, movies, etc., that causes another program to copy proprietary or other secured content from memory and release it to a more accessible format.

6. the dumper, a state of ruin or collapse.

7. Slang. buttocks.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• dumpers
  plural

Example Sentences

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dumper dumpers

But while his success might seem preordained, it's easy to forget that reality show contestants and former boyband members are usually consigned to the great pop dumper, never to be seen again.

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2023

Vick doesn’t have a Twitter account but heard about the mayo dumper search process through a friend.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2022

By the time she released two successive collaborations – modern pop’s stabilisers – fans worried she was destined for pop’s dumper.

From The Guardian ● Apr. 3, 2020

Neither Nick, the dumpee, nor Madison, the dumper, was necessarily at fault.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 22, 2015

I wonder if something will set him off again and make him get all angry like he did about the carrot dumper, but his facial expressions never seem to change.

From "Boy21" by Matthew Quick

The proposed project would install trees for shade, artistic benches and canopies, vertical trellises to grow food, and solar-powered lights equipped with cameras for capturing illegal dumpers in the act.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 7, 2023

As would greater enforcement by using videos to track down dumpers.

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 16, 2023

One of the so-called midnight dumpers went to prison, along with the head of the company, leaving state officials and the E.P.A. to decide where to place 60,000 tons of contaminated soil.

From New York Times ● Jul. 28, 2020

She’d also like a more vigorous police presence augmented by a network of cameras to catch dumpers, with penalties for the ones doing it.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 1, 2020

It went singing over the pack, pressing ever with a stronger hand upon its dumpers and ridges––pushing it, everywhere, faster and faster out to sea.

From Billy Topsail & Company A Story for Boys by Norman Duncan