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Bumper car — at a small town fair A ride in a bumper car, short video clip Bumper car is the generic name for a type of flat ride consisting of several small electric cars which draw power from the floor and/or ceiling … Wikipedia
bumper car — bumper cars N COUNT A bumper car is a small electric car with a wide rubber bumper all round. People drive bumper cars around a special enclosure at a fairground … English dictionary
Bumper boats — are an amusement park ride that uses inner tube shaped watercraft with steerable electric motors. Most are equipped with water guns for duels with other riders. Some make rain gear available. On February 5, 2008, a child is reported to have been… … Wikipedia
bumper car — UK / US noun [countable] Word forms bumper car : singular bumper car plural bumper cars a dodgem car … English dictionary
Bumper canards — (also dive planes) are small wings attached to the front spoiler of a car for the purposes of modifying the aerodynamic characteristics of the car in a modest way.The most common use of bumper canards is to increase front downforce on cars where… … Wikipedia
bumper-to-bumper — [bump′ərtə bum′pər] adj. of or having a long line of cars very close together on a road and, often, moving slowly … English World dictionary
bumper car — n a small electric car that you drive in a special area at a ↑funfair and deliberately try to hit other cars →↑dodgems … Dictionary of contemporary English
bumper car — bumper ,car noun count a small electric car for one or two people that you drive around a special area at an AMUSEMENT PARK and try to hit other cars … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
bumper — 1670s, glass filled to the brim; perhaps from notion of bumping as large, or from a related sense of booming (see BUMP (Cf. bump)). Meaning anything unusually large is from 1759, slang. Meaning buffer of a car is from 1839, Amer.Eng., originally… … Etymology dictionary
bumper-to-bumper — adjective used of traffic bumper to bumper traffic • Similar to: ↑slow * * * /bum peuhr teuh bum peuhr/, adj. 1. marked by a long line of cars moving slowly or with many stops and starts, one behind the other: bumper to bumper traffic. 2.… … Useful english dictionary
