Definitions for dumps

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Spelling: [duhmps]

IPA: /dʌmps/

Dumps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in dumps (dmpsu).

Definitions for dumps

noun

1. a depressed state of mind (usually preceded by in the):
2. an accumulation of discarded garbage, refuse, etc.
3. Also called dumpsite, dumping-ground. a place where garbage, refuse, etc., is deposited.
4. Military. a collection of ammunition, stores, etc., deposited at some point, as near a battlefront, for distribution. the ammunition, stores, etc., so deposited.
5. the act of dumping.
6. Mining. a runway or embankment equipped with tripping devices, from which low-grade ore, rock, etc., are dumped. the pile of ore so dumped.
7. Informal. a place, house, or town that is dilapidated, dirty, or disreputable.
8. (in merchandising) a bin or specially made carton in which items are displayed for sale:
9. Computers. a copy of the contents of a computer's internal storage or of the contents of a file at a given instant, that is printed, displayed, or stored on an output medium.

Idioms

1. dump on (someone), Informal. to attack with verbal abuse; criticize harshly: to unload one's problems onto (another person):

verb (used with object)

1. to drop or let fall in a mass; fling down or drop heavily or suddenly:
2. to empty out, as from a container, by tilting or overturning.
3. to unload or empty out (a container), as by tilting or overturning.
4. to be dismissed, fired, or released from a contract:
5. to transfer or rid oneself of suddenly and irresponsibly:
6. Boxing Slang. to knock down: to lose (a match) intentionally:
7. Commerce. to put (goods or securities) on the market in large quantities and at a low price without regard to the effect on market conditions. to sell (goods) into foreign markets below cost in order to promote exports or damage foreign competition.
8. Computers. to print, display, or record on an output medium (the contents of a computer's internal storage or the contents of a file), often at the time a program fails.
9. Slang. to kill; murder:

verb (used without object)

1. to fall or drop down suddenly.
2. to throw away or discard garbage, refuse, etc.
3. Commerce. to offer goods for sale in large quantities at a low price. to dump below-cost goods into foreign markets.
4. to release contents:
5. Slang. to complain, criticize, gossip, or tell another person one's problems:
6. Slang: Vulgar. to defecate.

Origin of dumps

1515-25; compare German dumpf dull, Middle Dutch domp haze

Examples for dumps

You needn't get into the dumps because you've failed to make good as a journalist.

In the books, Cersei gets very down in the dumps, starts putting on weight, and hits the bottle hard.

Governor of Louisiana Bobby Jindal dumps on Barack Obama right on the White House lawn.

You see, he had so many years of being one of the dumps to make up for!

That funny dog, Loubet, he was the man to cure one of the dumps if anybody could!

What mattered it to me now, this babble of dumps and dust, of claims and clean-ups?

Stephen Colbert dumps North Korea It seems as if Kim Jong-un is looking to go steady with America.

If the economy is back in the dumps, the nation may just want change.

The patients like me, and they don't die of the dumps when I am about.

Just when spirits are lowest, sometimes, we look to sky and see giant flock of dumps soaring together overhead.