Meaning of bummer | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.
   historical, obsolete
2. disappointment, let-down
3. A disappointment, a pity, a shame.
   colloquial
4. A gay man.
   UK, derogatory, offensive, slang
5. An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
   US, dated, slang
6. disillusionment
7. A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.
   dated, slang
8. A lamb (typically the smallest of a multiple birth) which has been abandoned by its mother or orphaned, and as a consequence is raised in part or in whole by humans.

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Examples

““If I get⟳ away I sha’n’t be here,” I says, “to prove⟳ these rapscallions ain’t your uncles, and I couldn’t do it if I was here. I could swear⟳ they was beats and bummers, that’s all, though that’s worth something.”

“That's a total bummer.”

“Looks like⟳ I'm gonna be stuck here the whole summer / Well what a bummer / I can think⟳ of a lot worse places to be”

“I came to realise⟳ that life on crutches is a bummer. It's just fair dinkum like⟳ a whole new lifestyle[.]”

“This young man never had a bummer in some 33 LSD trips. Every one of the them was a delight—everything under control⟳. He needed only to snap⟳ his fingers, and down he came, anytime. But on Voyage 34, he finally met himself coming down an up staircase, and the encounter was crushing.”

“You know⟳, the kind of guy who would, if he wasn't gay, probably be shouting ‘Oi, gay boy!’ or ‘You bummer!’ or even ‘Oi, paki!’ or what have⟳ you. They're not enlightened.”

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