BUMPER

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A cup or glass filled to the brim, or till the liquor runs over, particularly in drinking a health or toast. He frothed his bumpers to the brim. Tennyson.

2.
n.

A covered house at a theater, etc., in honor of some favorite performer. [Cant]

3.
n.

That which bumps or causes a bump.

4.
n.

Anything which resists or deadens a bump or shock; a buffer.


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