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

The thing about dumping is that the dumpee often worries for hours or days afterward when the dumper walks away relieved.

From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 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

His brother, Noel, has seen his career go from strength to strength since Oasis split, while Liam's band Beady Eye fell ingloriously into the dumper.

From BBC ● Dec. 27, 2016

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

Unfortunately, I realized while going through this shish kebab storm that all the people close to me — family, friends, co-workers — are dumpers.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 18, 2022

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

Then there came a day when the wind gathered the dumpers and pans in one broad mass and jammed it against the coast.

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