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dumper

/ˈdʌmpɚ/noun

dumper is a noun meaning “A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites; a dumpcart” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled D-U-M-P-E-R and has 2 syllables, and it appears about once in every 7 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of dumper is dumpers.

What does dumper mean?

noun

  1. 1

    A small vehicle often used to carry loads and material around, often on building sites; a dumpcart.

  2. 2

    A dropper of refuse, particularly not in landfill or recycling sites.

  3. 3

    One who dumps a boyfriend or girlfriend; the one of a romantic couple who terminates the relationship.

  4. 4

    A wave that knocks a surfer into the water.

  5. 5

    A program that outputs the contents of storage or a data structure.

  6. 6

    slangA person's buttocks.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How do you pronounce dumper?

  • UK /ˈdʌmpə/
  • US /ˈdʌmpɚ/

Dumper has 2 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Flame,_not_lame-dumper.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

Forms of dumper

  • dumpers plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is dumper?

Dumper appears about once in every 7 million words in written English, the 76,798th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Dumper in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Spanishcamión bañera (vehicle)
Frenchbenne, conteneur (dropper of refuse)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does dumper come from?

From dump + -er.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).