Etymology
Origin of pumper
Example Sentences
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One suffered a heat-related injury and the other was injured when the brush pumper he was riding in struck a tanker truck as the two were heading to fight the fire near Gage.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 2, 2024
There were no bad days being a party pumper.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2023
The small pumper truck: No. 9,849 in 2015.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022
Trevor Nunn, who directed the original London production in 1981, provided lyrics for the show’s most famous tear-duct pumper, “Memory,” sung by a forlorn outcast, Grizabella.
From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2019
He worked as a production operator, which was a fancy name for a pumper, for Amoco over in the North Cowden field west of town.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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