thumbern.
/ˈθʌmə/ North American colloquial.
One who ‘thumbs’ a lift, a hitch-hiker.
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > one who rides in a vehicle > hitch-hiker
hitch-hiker1927
thumber1935
hitcher1960
swamper1966
1935 Evening Sun (Baltimore) 8 Feb. 39/8 Chief of Police..has turned ‘thumbs down’ on the ‘thumbers’.
1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 29 June 31/5 For the hitch-hiker, Canada's roads hold little but terror and horrors, say many thumbers from Toronto.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1986; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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n.1935- tallman
- tallmasted
- tallnecked
- tallness
- tallnesses
- tallow
- tallow candle
- tallow catch
- tallow pot
- tallow shrub
- tallow-ball
- tallow-berry
- tallow-boiler
- tallow-bush
- tallow-cake
- tallow-caked
- tallow-can
- tallow-candle
- tallow-chandler
- tallow-chandlering
- tallow-chandlery
- tallow-chandling
- tallow-coloured
- tallow-crap
- tallow-cup