Meaning

6 senses
  1. (US, dated, slang)An idle, worthless fellow, without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.

  2. 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.

  3. (colloquial)A disappointment, a pity, a shame.

    That's a total bummer.

    Reinfall, Frusterlebnis, Enttäuschung

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  4. (dated, slang)A psychedelic crisis; hallucinogenic drug use producing undesirable dysphoric psychological effects, most often fear, paranoia, and especially horrifying hallucinations; a bad trip.

    a bad reaction to a hallucinogenic drug

  5. (UK, derogatory, offensive, slang)A gay man.

  6. (historical, obsolete)A forager, especially in Sherman's March to the Sea of November to December 1864.

Examples

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  1. That's a bummer.

    От халепа.

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  2. It was a bummer.

    ruЭто был облом.

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  3. That new movie was a bummer.

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  4. That guy is a total bummer.

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  5. It was kind of a bummer.

    deDas war schon irgendwie schade.

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Translations

5 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a disappointment, a pity, a shame:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
a disappointment, a pity, a shame:

Origin

Borrowed from German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”).

Borrowed from German Bummler (“a drifter, a stroller, a rambler, a loiterer, a laggard”).

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