hummer
noun
a person or thing that hums.
hummer
1 American
[huhm-er]
/ ˈhʌm ər /
Hummer
2
American
[huhm-er]
/ ˈhʌm ər /
Trademark.
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Origin of hummer
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Each spring I hang a nectar feeder in my backyard, then patiently await the first hummer.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 28, 2022
When rival GMC’s electric hummer hits lots, that behemoth will weigh more than 9,000 pounds.
From Slate ● May 21, 2021
Found only in Cuba, the itty-bitty bee hummingbird, the world’s smallest bird, weighing less than a dime, is adapted to drink nectar from flowers too small for any other hummer.
From National Geographic ● Apr. 18, 2018
The Georgia fan who drove around Atlanta with a flatscreen playing the SEC Championship game on loop strapped to the back of his hummer…
From Golf Digest ● Dec. 28, 2017
“You are absolutely right. This hummer has an established life cycle. You get into that what-if? game. What if it got into human lungs? If it mutates, it could be a problem. A big problem.”
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
Former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger drove a Hummer powered by hydrogen, putting the fuel on the state’s map in 2004 with his vision of a 200-station “hydrogen highway.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Magna won the job of building the metal box that would hold and protect the battery for GM’s first electric truck: the Hummer EV.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 1, 2026
The Cadillac Lyriq starts close to $60,00 and the GMC Hummer EV can cost more than $100,000.
From Barron's ● Oct. 9, 2025
Anticipating a slowdown in demand as the incentives end, General Motors has laid off 360 workers in Detroit due to the slowed production of the GMC Hummer EV and Cadillac Escalade IQ.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 8, 2025
“Pass the cabbage, please,” croaked Mr. Hummer after a few moments of heavy silence.
From "The Detective's Assistant" by Kate Hannigan
Calscape, the California Native Plant Society’s plant database, says there is no better single plant than California fuchsias for attracting hummers.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 2, 2025
These strategies have not been reported before, likely because hummers maneuver too quickly for the human eye to see.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2023
Those are the flowers where photographers want to catch the hummers.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 11, 2022
The reason: Those heftier hummers had relatively bigger muscles and wings than smaller species, she and her colleagues report today in Science.
From Science Magazine ● Feb. 8, 2018
There were many hummers which can stand still in the air and look like bits of polished stone and have long tongues to sip honey with.
From "Island of the Blue Dolphins" by Scott O'Dell
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