EGAVE

bummer

About 0.10 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
  2. noun An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
  3. noun A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.
  4. noun A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
    That's a total bummer.
  5. noun A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.
  6. interjection Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment).
  7. noun A gay man.
  8. adjective comparative form of bum: more bum

Similar words

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Word family

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