thumper

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈθʌmpə/    美 /ˈθʌmpɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. One who thumps. countable,uncountable
  2. A single-cylinder engine, especially four-stroke engines or those with large engine displacements. countable,slang,uncountable
  3. A drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others banging on a table. uncountable
  4. Something big, such as a lie; a whopper. countable,slang,uncountable
  5. A kind of slam-door train introduced in the late 1950s. UK,countable,slang,uncountable
  6. The Vietnam-era M79 grenade launcher (due to its distinctive report). US,countable,slang,uncountable
  7. A short rope for beating disobedient sled dogs. countable,uncountable
    — This [argument] was about the use of the thumper to control dog teams, and perhaps the unique living conditions of a polar base caused both sides to shift from an initial disagreement to positions more extreme than the ones they would have reached in the wider world outside.
  8. A strong adherent to a religion or ideology. countable,informal,uncountable
    — But in spite of the antics of its Bible thumpers and its boobocracy, my father was unable to stay mad at the United States for long.
  9. A track with a thumping beat. countable,informal,uncountable
    — 2020, Ian Cole, ABBA: Song by Song This late-1979 disco thumper is set to a driving beat with a memorable refrain that proved so enduring that American icon Madonna sampled it for her 2005 hit 'Hung Up', from her album Confessions on a Dance Floor.

词形变化

thumpers plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Bible thumper crawthumper ivory-thumper Koran thumper mutton-thumper tubthumper

词源

Etymology tree
English thump
Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.
Proto-Italic *-āzijos
Latin -āriusnom.
Latin -āriusbor.
Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz
Proto-West Germanic *-ārī
Old English -ere
Middle English -ere
English -er
English thumper
From thump + -er.
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