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How to pronounce bummer in English?

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Type Words
Type of effect
Type Words
Type of annoyance, botheration, irritation, vexation


having to stand in line so long was a real bummer.

Examples of bummer

bummer
So that's a bit of a bummer, but at least I got to go to prom in a Disney movie.
From the suntimes.com
It's a bummer because it's almost over, but at the same time I'm looking ahead.
From the stltoday.com
This could be a bummer for a guest who just wants to dance and enjoy the party.
From the post-gazette.com
Everyone feels this in varying degrees because there's a bummer element to today.
From the suntimes.com
For an industry obsessed with its anniversaries, that's really a bit of a bummer.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yeah, it's a bummer that this pattern didn't hold for the most recent election.
From the keepingscore.blogs.time.com
Kind of a bummer when you think of how much they prepared for the birthday outing.
From the sfgate.com
Unlike most inaugural addresses, President Obama's first was kind of a bummer.
From the swampland.time.com
I imagine this was necessary to let it compact well, but it's a bummer nonetheless.
From the techcrunch.com
More examples
  • An experience that is irritating or frustrating or disappointing; "having to stand in line so long was a real bummer"
  • A bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug
  • Bimmer (Russian title: u0411u0443u043Cu0435u0440 (pronounced Boomer) is a 2003 road movie directed by Peter Buslov, written by Peter Buslov and Denis Rodimin. The plot revolves around four friends who get into trouble with the law and flee Moscow in a black BMW (the eponymous "Bimmer").
  • Bummers was a nickname applied to foragers of Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman's Union army during its March to the Sea and north through North Carolina and South Carolina during the American Civil War.
  • Bummed was the second album by British band Happy Mondays. It was released in November 1988.
  • A forager During the American Civil War, especially during Sherman's southern campaign, "bummer" would forage and incidentally to reconnoiter; comparative form of bum: more bum; Exclamation of annoyance or frustration at a bummer (disappointment)
  • (bummest) Superlative form of bum
  • (bummers) foragers or marauders during the Civil War
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