BUMPER

Bumper

In automobiles, a bumper is the front-most or rear-most part, ostensibly designed to allow the car to sustain an impact without damage to the vehicle's safety systems. They are not capable of reducing injury to vehicle occupants in high-speed impacts, but are increasingly being designed to mitigate injury to pedestrians struck by cars.

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bumper

Noun

  1. A drinking vessel filled to the brim.
  2. Anything large or successful (now usually attributively).
  3. Parts at the front and back of a vehicle which are meant to absorb the impact of a collision; fender
  4. Any mechanical device used to absorb an impact, soften a collision, or protect against impact
  5. Someone or something that bumps.
  6. A bouncer.
  7. A side wall of a pool table.
  8. A short ditty or jingle used to separate a show from the advertisements.
  9. A covered house at a theatre, etc., in honour of some favourite performer.

Adjective

  1. Large; filled to the bumpers at the top of a silo.
    We harvested a bumper crop of arugula and parsnips this year.


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