1A person or thing that dumps something.

1. 1.1British A truck with a body that tilts or opens at the back for unloading.
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   • The former International Development Secretary invited upon herself a dumper truck of fury and scorn, which Ministers and Labour MPs have duly disgorged over her head.
   • If only the time had been found to paint on the club colours, the guys in the dumper truck would have known to leave it alone, to go find a wall to demolish instead.
   • These loans are used to purchase equipment such as dumpers, excavators, motor graders, compactors, pavers, cranes, dozers and several more depending on the requirements of the project.
   • During the latest break-in last Wednesday, 20,000 pounds' worth of plant, including a dumper truck and roller, were taken.
   • By now we had reached the Poet's Stone, imported from a distant quarry on a dumper truck and now set on a small grassy mound by the stream, where he invites friends to sit and write a poem.
   • Set up by director Roy Nixon to deal with worldwide disaster zones, the company is heading out to the region equipped with a 26-tonne truck, trailer, 20 ft container and a digger and dumper in an effort to rebuild the area.
   • Nine dumper trucks carrying 35 tonnes of rock at a time plough backwards and forwards from the lip of the causeway, dumping smaller rocks and huge armouring against the tides.
   • The road was too narrow to turn round in, so I made use of the entrance to a builder's yard, reversed around a dumper truck and started back towards whatever it was we'd just left.
   • Workmen came to the rescue of Don and his wife, from Didsbury, when they arrived in a dumper truck to drag the car free.
   • An attempt to jump a dumper truck over two parked cars has been halted for health and safety reasons.
   • The workers will be on site until Saturday, August 21, and in that time will use six-tonne diggers and dumpers as well as their bare hands to lay more than 1,500 tonnes of stone.
   • The win confirms the company as a leading provider of revolutionary heavy-duty vehicles from dumper trucks to agricultural tractors.
   • Youngsters are believed to have ‘hot-wired’ a dumper truck and drove it at a new classroom being built at Healey Primary School.
   • Scoop after scoop was scraped away, lifted, and tipped with an ear-splitting crash into a waiting dumper truck.
   • The progressives are forever going on about not living in a museum and having to break eggs, while archaeologists gaze gloomily at the diggers and dumper trucks that preface the concrete omelette.
   • Take noise for example - for nearly three years residents adjoining a housing development had to endure a dumper with an ineffective exhaust being driven around the site like a stock car - no complaint was made.
   • The company's product range includes tools, construction plant, diggers, dumpers and rollers.
   • Further to our telephone conversation regarding the above we are erecting this for the repairs of gravel pit machinery, in particular the dumper trucks, and also the maintenance of the concrete crushing machine.
   • It is not a case where the vehicle is designed for use in a place other than a road, such as a dumper truck used for road construction work.
   • One is a rat catcher, one is a gardener and two others drive a dumper truck and a bulldozer.

   Synonyms

   lorry, articulated lorry, heavy goods vehicle, juggernaut
2. 1.2Australian, NZ A large wave that breaks and hurls the swimmer or surfer on to the beach.
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   • They were spilling waves rather than dumpers; meaning conditions would be good for swimming.
   • She's up there light and fast for maybe five seconds before she thinks about dumpers and drowning and then she's prone again, nose to the wax, eyes closed hard and clinging, clinging.

2North American A large metal container for rubbish.

1. 2.1the dumperinformal Used in reference to a bad or unwanted state.
   his career's in the dumper

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   • He recalled in all seriousness when the monologue once went down the dumper three nights straight he was ready to quit the business.
   • And about the eighth joke, we both knew this whole thing was going in the dumper, right?
   • The program manager, unable to stand the hot breath of the bald eagle, has left the building, and morale is again in the dumper.
   • This odd little bunch of confusion was spat at the radio station, and really demonstrates that even when you've plunged down the dumper once, you don't recognise when it's happening again.
   • If you bought it when it was in the dumper, you've had a great run.
   • He, in turn, was kind enough to not abuse that gift of joy by effectively throwing his game in the dumper for the balance of the week.
   • With the advertising biz in the dumper, the Media organ has gone from a weekly to a fortnightly schedule.
   • By buying it, we would somehow be in on the joke - and not only that, but we would be granting a formerly washed-up pop star an escape route from the dumper.
   • This franchise has been in the dumper for so long that I don't have the heart to bump them out just yet.
   • His editing job, however, is masterful, with dozens of full and partial conversations painting a dark societal picture bound to leave the most open of minds believing that western civilization really is careening down the dumper.
   • But a number of recent happenings in my part of Bolton have brought home just how far into the dumper we have descended.
   • Today, the question marks of celebrity are stinking up the primetime game show circuit, sending that genre into the dumper faster than department stores can send those monochromatic ties back to the warehouses.
   • If nothing else, the renewed surge of equity markets around the globe as well as at home has put my bearish projections, which looked so sweet just three months ago, right in the dumper - temporarily at least.
   • As the Colorado agricultural economy went in the dumper, his business partner misled him in ways he won't discuss.
   • Back in 1993, the once ubiquitous band had long been consigned to the dumper, with two original band members gone and no Top Ten hits in the past four years.
   • Hopefully, he will now finally be consigned to the international dumper.
   • A friend of the singer said: ‘She was thrilled because a year ago she was being written off and people were saying her career was heading for the dumper.’
   • All I can say is, there goes western civilization right in the dumper.
   • Have we slid so far into the dumper that a snowfall of not particularly desperate density causes a shutdown?
   • Any serious injuries, however, could send hopes for even the wild card in the dumper.