thumper

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However, signing a thumper is always sexy for the fans.

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  1. One who or that which thumps.
  2. A thing or a person that is impressive by reason of hugeness or greatness; an unusually big fish, lie, etc.; a whopper. [Colloquial] He cherished his friend, and he relished a bumper; Yet one fault he had, and that one was a thumper. Goldsmith, Retaliation.

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  • Only Charlie was what we'd call a Bible thumper, a hard-shell Baptist. —  The Twelfth Card
  • However, signing a thumper is always sexy for the fans. —  Mets Merized Online
  • There's a Bible-thumper, an egomaniac who refers to himself constantly in the third person and then there's Tamblyn, whose secret is —  AfterEllen.com - Because visibility matters
  • But it's good now to know you are a Bible thumper, although a Bible thumper that has major contradictions in your beliefs I can see right off, you believe the Bible, but cherry pick it for beliefs.
  • I'm not some Bible-thumper, mind you, but I've done a little studying into what the Good Book says on this topic. —  WORLD Magazine | Community
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