hummer
noun
a person or thing that hums.
hummer
1 American
[huhm-er]
/ ˈhʌm ər /
Hummer
2
American
[huhm-er]
/ ˈhʌm ər /
Trademark.
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of hummer
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Staff at Green Spring put out sugar water to keep the hummer fed and had a heater running to keep it warm.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 29, 2021
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
At the Soul Train Music Awards in May 1996, Wright said, Knight and Shakur were in a Hummer when Shakur got into a confrontation with rapper Christopher Wallace, a.k.a.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 24, 2026
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
GM announced it would follow the Hummer with an electric version of its Chevrolet Silverado pickup.
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
“Yes,” agreed Mr. Hummer politely, but not daring to take another bite, “I don’t recognize this as mutton or ham. It has an unusual taste.”
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
The canines on these hummers were as big as the canines on any guard dog you’ll ever see, and that was a rude awakening.
From "The Hot Zone" by Richard Preston
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