dumper

American  

[duhmp-er] / ˈdʌmp ər /

noun

plural

dumpers

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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Example Sentences

The court heard that the day William died, he was driving a dumper truck, removing stone from the cone crushing plant and placing it into stockpiles.

From BBC • Mar. 13, 2026

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

From Washington Post • Dec. 29, 2022

She pointed out a digger that can fill a 100-tonne dumper truck in three bucket scoops.

From The Guardian • Dec. 21, 2017

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