Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that hums.
- n. Informal A hummingbird.
- n. Baseball A fastball.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which hums.
- n. One who or that which excels in any quality, especially in general energy or speed.
- n. In ornithology, a humming-bird.
- n. A calling device employed in telephony in place of the magnetic call-bell; a buzzer.
Wiktionary
- n. slang fellatio in which the person performing the act vibrates their mouth by humming.
- n. slang humvee
- n. slang hummingbird
- n. slang humdinger
- n. baseball A fastball.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, hums; one who applauds by humming.
- n. (Zoöl.) A humming bird.
WordNet 3.0
- n. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity
- n. a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words
Examples
“A vegetarian in a hummer is better than a meat eater on a bike.”
Waldo Jaquith - On the efficiency of buying locally produced goods.
“Maybe it's time for another impeachment for lying, for lying about a hummer is one thing, but lying about scandal is quite another!”
“They didn’t really have much choice though, all the other big car companies were entering the compo, and the hummer is the damocles’ sword hanging over any eclology claims by GM.”
“Damn! If Bush can get a hummer from a guy wearing a freakin’ sombrero, at least he’s got SOMETHING going for him.”
“I believe your hummer is a ruby throated as they are really the only hummingbird in the east.”
“Robin, the only thing dumber than a hummer is a stretch hummer.”
“It was the crew who called the hummer home during the invasion who came up with the idea to rebuild it from the ground up on the "Overhaulin '" television show and donate the proceeds to charity.”
“Run it on corn oil. the hummer is a good start, there are plenty more where it came from, one model at a time is one way, what we really need to do as a people is to redefine our needs.”
“To learn more about Disqus and its features, the hummer is a good start, there are plenty more where it came from, one model at a time is one way, what we really need to do as a people is to redefine our needs.”
“The second balloon one and the hummer are my favs. aea Says:”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hummer’.
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set phasers to...
you name the setting
I've tuned mine to be gentler and kinder
following suit is not mandatory but would be appreciatedcoddle, confuse, flummox, tap, furrow, instigate, invigorate, punnify, logical, must... act... be..., bowdlerise, laughing gas and 435 more...
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Brand Theft Auto
A marque list for cars--models or companies who've used common words as their name.
explorer, navigator, frontier, mustang, quest, cougar, sidekick, legend, legacy, ranger, voyager, civic and 266 more...
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SEDE - technology+material+support
nuclear fuel, nuclear arsenal, nuclear equipment, AWACS, anti-missile shield, battlefield opera..., communication sys..., community communi..., control system, functionality log..., Missile Technolog..., NBC Warning and R... and 302 more...
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Automobiles
ambulance, automobile, beach buggy, cab, car, cement mixer, cherry, coach, compact, convertible, coupe, deuce and 66 more...
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Naughty Croc Fountain
Names of fireworks.
bottle rocket, naughty croc foun..., rip the sky, Roman candle, black snake, cherry bomb, M-80, bang snaps, fan cake, dragon fart, Catherine wheel, happiness and 26 more...
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SEDE+TRAN - military transport
warplane, chopper, armored car, Humvee, hummer, jet, AWACS, cargo helicopter, helicopter gunship, light battleship, tank and artiller..., zippo boat and 71 more...
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A Provincial Glossary, 1787
A list of provincial English words that appear in Francis Grose's A Provincial Glossary, with a Collection of Local Proverbs and Popular Superstitions. London, MDCCLXXXVII. Printed for S. Hooper, N...
tharky, velling, cadma, whinnock, caingel, giglet, gill-houter, leasing, leech-way, dellfin, underwood, dilvered and 193 more...
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sexual feelings
words describing the sexual parts of life
snog, shag, copulate, intercourse, paraphilia, carnal, fetish, fornicate, abstinence, foreplay, coitus, chastity and 119 more...
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Recent additions
Relatively new coinages, or adaptations of previously existing words.
firewall, bioterrorism, bling-bling, bluetooth, bobo, game face, microdermabrasion, metrosexual, microarray, sex worker, stained-glass cei..., stalkerazzi and 99 more...
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Vocabulario 01
pester, jack off, jerk off, get hummer, hummer, up to speed, "up to speed", all down the front
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I'd rather not say
words that grate on my nerves (mainly because of the way they sound, not what they mean)
yogurt, belly, asthma, spruce, daisy, rutabaga, petunia, toot, fecal, oodles, pansy, buddy and 20 more...
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Come fly away!
When it comes to naming their subjects, ornithologists soar above all others!
hummer, warbler, grebe, mallard, woodpecker, parakeet, cedar waxwing, penguin, pheasant, junco, flicker, tanager and 19 more...
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Nabokovia
slime, mnemoptical, reverbed, forefeel, fair copy, scriggle, gaufrette, inamorata, wanter, noctambule, incarnadine, intercadence and 59 more...
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Stupid Car Names
spleen venting welcome
kangoo, p76, vandura, reliant, hummer, probe, gallant, prelude
Tweets
Looking for tweets for hummer.
blafferty I would like a verb for "to begin to speak." May 2, 2011
hobbyhorse Neigh. May 2, 2011
sionnach Oh, you see that's just plain silly. It's quite sufficient to have the verb "to neigh"; there's no conceivable reason to have a special verb for starting the process. One can just say "Gluebones cleared his horsey throat, because he was feeling a bit catarrhy ...." May 2, 2011
hernesheir To begin to neigh. - an old provincial term from the south of England. May 2, 2011
mollusque She could borrow, perhaps, his old sedan though he might not like the notion (pointing to a nondescript youth who was waiting for her on the sidewalk). He had just bought a heavenly Hummer to go places with her.
--Vladimir Nabokov, 1974, Look at the Harlequins! p. 138 Jun 13, 2009
john "His rock origins and lack of classical training raised doubts at the start; some established composers considered him a 'hummer'—Hollywood slang for a would-be composer who can’t read music and relies on ghostwriters. (Charlie Chaplin was a hummer.)"
The New Yorker, Oscar Scores, by Alex Ross, March 9, 1998 Apr 28, 2008
seanahan Also, ..., well, never mind. Jan 1, 2008
yarb Also, a hickey. Jan 1, 2008
sionnach I didn't realize that Hummers were now sufficiently advanced to be able to fly as well. I shall dash right out and buy one. And I shall call it Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang. It will be my fine four-fendered friend. And I will stock it with toot sweets. Jan 1, 2008