Definitions for lumpers

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lumpers lump·er

Spelling: [luhm-per]

IPA: /ˈlʌm pər/

Lumpers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 208 anagrams from letters in lumpers (elmprsu).

Definitions for lumpers

noun

1. a day laborer employed to handle cargo, as fish or timber.
2. Biology Informal. a taxonomist who believes that classifications should emphasize similarities among organisms and therefore favors large, inclusive taxa (opposed to splitter).
3. a piece or mass of solid matter without regular shape or of no particular shape:
4. a protuberance or swelling:
5. an aggregation, collection, or mass; clump:
6. Also called lump of sugar. a small block of granulated sugar, designed for sweetening hot coffee, tea, etc.:
7. majority; plurality; multitude:
8. lumps, Informal. harsh criticism, punishment, or defeat:
9. Informal. a heavy, clumsy, and usually stupid person.

Idioms

1. get / take one's lumps, to receive or endure hardship, punishment, criticism, etc.:

adjective

1. in the form of a lump or lumps:
2. made up of a number of items taken together; not separated or considered separately:

verb (used with object)

1. to unite into one aggregation, collection, or mass (often followed by together):
2. to deal with, handle, consider, etc., in the lump or mass:
3. to make into a lump or lumps:
4. to raise into or cover with lumps:

verb (used without object)

1. to form or raise a lump or lumps:
2. to move heavily and awkwardly:

Origin of lumpers

1775-85; lump¹ (in v. sense) + -er¹

Examples for lumpers

lumper, a low thief who haunts wharves and docks, and robs vessels, also a person who sells old goods as new.

"Monsoon, you son of a lumper potato," cried out a surly, gruff voice from a berth opposite.

A lumper was a man who did the work of carrying things into a ship, or out of it.

So a lumper, or 'longshoreman, had told the men where to put things.