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thumper|ˈθʌmpə(r)|
[f. thump v. + -er1.]
1. a. One who or that which thumps.
In quots. c 1537, a 1619, app. a cant name for some class of ‘rogue’, or for some coin. In quot. 1728, applied to the striking apparatus of a clock.
c1537Thersites in Four Old Plays (1848) 81 Tynckers,..tryfullers, turners, and trumpers, Tempters, traytoures, trauaylers, and thumpers. a1619Fletcher Mad Lover v. iv, Chi. (Takes out his purse, and shakes it.).. Here are thumpers, chequins, golden rogues. 1728Ramsay To Starrat 18 The thumper that tells hours upon the kirk. 1824New Monthly Mag. XII. 344/2 The thumper on the great drum.
b. Geol. A device for creating artificial seismic waves in the earth.
1962Times 18 Apr. 4/7 Another device carried is a hydroprod, more familiarly known as a ‘thumper’... It transmits a powerful sound impulse which penetrates the sub-surface strata of the sea bed, the return echo recording the depths of the different layers of sea bed material. 1977Sci. Amer. July 65/2 (Advt.), Seismic excitation—a shock wave from an explosive charge or a mechanical ‘thumper’—is applied to the earth.
2. A thumping or heavy blow.
1682T. Flatman Heraclitus Ridens No. 67 (1713) II. 163 I'll give you such a Thumper shall make your Shoulders ake.
3. Anything ‘thumping’ or strikingly big of its kind, esp. a ‘thumping’ lie; a ‘whopper’, ‘whacker’: cf. bouncer 3, 4. colloq.
1660Tatham Charac. Rump Dram. Wks. (1878) 287 You may call it the tail of the great dragon, and 'tis a thumper. 1677W. Hughes Man of Sin iii. iii. 97 For Thumpers commend me to Abbot Bar, and St. Brendons Stories. 1711Swift Jrnl. to Stella 8 Sept., You are apt to lie in your travels, though not so bad as Stella; she tells thumpers. 1804J. Collins Scripscrap. 157 They gives me a Thumper of a Christmas Box. 1863J. R. Green Lett. ii. (1901) 125 His lies are such thumpers.
Add:4. A motorcycle or trail bike designed to travel over rough terrain, esp. one with a single-cylinder, four-stroke engine which produces a characteristic ‘thump’ on the fourth power-stroke of the piston. colloq.
1980Dirt Bike Oct. 58/1 Honda seemed to be the only ones interested in producing a decent street/trail thumper for a while. 1981Biker Mar. 10/1 The thumper lives on... The 499 cc, sohc, single-cylinder motor remains basically unaltered. 1986Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 3 Aug. 26/3 For those who used to exhaust themselves kicking their thumpers into life, there is good news—an electric starter. 1988Dirt Rider Sept. 35/1 (Advt.), In the old days, if you wanted more performance from your thumper, you and everyone around you had to put up with a lot of exhaust noise. |