I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bumper crowd (= a very big one )
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As usual there was a bumper crowd at the festival.
a bumper harvest (= a very good harvest )
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Plum growers are expecting a bumper harvest this year.
bumper car
bumper sticker
bumper sticker (= a sticker on the back of a car )
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
front
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Using black trimmings, shape the front and rear bumpers and a rectangle for the radiator.
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Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper .
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Insiders say the front air intake, rounded but not necessarily elliptical, will be below the impact-absorbing front bumper .
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Our driver rolled up his window and backed away, lightly tapping the front bumper of the car behind.
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Remembering a detail with sudden clarity, Charles knelt down and looked at the left-hand side of the front bumper .
rear
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Using black trimmings, shape the front and rear bumpers and a rectangle for the radiator.
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Old Chao showed them the spare tire, which rode in its own metal case on the rear bumper .
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Somebody yelled and threw a can at the cab, hitting it on the rear bumper .
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Almost immediately, Sprague tags a braking Rezendes in the rear bumper , nearly sending Rezendes into a 180-degree spin.
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MacLane was still hard on our rear bumper .
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When the car arrived I noticed a large dent in the rear bumper and immediately lost my temper.
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I have unsuccessfully been searching for a set of military rear bumpers .
■ NOUN
car
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Named after Schwarzenegger for his terminating exploits, the big, strong tabby fell to an unseen swift car bumper blow.
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Is a car bumper , but see this part is a removable can opener.
crop
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Apple trees were straining beneath the weight of a bumper crop of what looked like Cox's orange pippins.
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Potatoes INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes, farmers should give them to the needy.
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During the enforcement season the bumper crop will be burnt by the army.
harvest
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Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced, and was prophesying a bumper harvest .
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What was a couple of hours spent in waiting when a bumper harvest was in sight?
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And in a carrier bag, cunningly at the back of a cupboard, a bumper harvest of old newspapers.
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Read in studio Plum growers say they're expecting a bumper harvest this year.
sticker
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Only in keeping with the bumper sticker , the driver isn't heading to work at all.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A battered and burned work basket projects low down in front like a bumper .
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Both rackets have a synthetic protective bumper guard and both come in two colourways.
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He also threatened to drag him down the street handcuffed to the bumper of his car.
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Insiders say the front air intake, rounded but not necessarily elliptical, will be below the impact-absorbing front bumper .
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Not to mention an artificial grass lawn on the hood and a white picket fence on the front bumper .
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Our driver rolled up his window and backed away, lightly tapping the front bumper of the car behind.
II. adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
crop
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This year, however, it looks like a bumper crop .
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He also contends that Democrats have not produced a bumper crop of congressional candidates this year.
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Picture your garden bed of cucumbers, a very large patch of them, a bumper crop .
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The only thing I see them reaping is a bumper crop of boredom.
harvest
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Without a bumper harvest , refinancing will saddle many farmers with more debt that they can handle.
sticker
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I feared souvenir stands selling bumper stickers and Austen joke books.
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Our unsolicited advice: Cut off the dreads, peel off the bumper sticker , and just stop listening to reggae entirely.
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A couple of months later I had some bumper stickers printed up.
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It sells buttons, bumper stickers , jewelry, license plate frames and other items at conventions and rallies.
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Two blocks south of the bridge he saw the first Volveremos bumper sticker .
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Our Houston office has been inundated with calls in the last few days from people wanting yard signs and bumper stickers .
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That he ought never put a bumper sticker on a new car.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Falcon Holidays is predicting a bumper January and has already sold almost 40 % of its summer programme for 2001.
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This year, however, it looks like a bumper crop.
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Without a bumper harvest, refinancing will saddle many farmers with more debt that they can handle.