bumpeen.
/bʌmˈpiː/, U.S. /ˌbəmˈpi/ A person who has been bumped (in various senses); now esp. a passenger who has been bumped from an airline flight (see bump v.1 10c).
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1887 C. C. Rhys Minora Carmina 267 Up at Oxford by eights on the Isis, The gloom of bumpees and of bumpers the glow.
1926 F. C. Whitehouse Plain Folks 34 Someone..collided with him; but, as the bumper was a good many pounds lighter than the bumpee, our hero absorbed the shock without harm.
1972 Charleston (W. Va) Daily Mail 13 Oct. 2 b/7 If they [sc. the passengers] all show up, the last ones are bumped off and put on another flight. The bumpees..usually just let the matter pass.
2001 R. Peffer Virgin Islands 68/1 If you have to spend the night, airlines frequently foot the hotel bill for their ‘bumpees’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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