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  • noun Plural form of hummer.

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Examples

  • So the reason we make hummers is because low-cost, low-margin smaller, fuel-efficient cars aren’t profitable due to the cost of the American labor market?

    Oddsmaking an Auto Bailout | Heretical Ideas Magazine 2008

  • The birds, often called hummers, will find blue, purple and yellow flowers appealing as well.

    unknown title 2009

  • I have to thank Clinton for one thing: all the Leftist hyprocrisy over his "hummers" finally taught me The Left Doesn't Really Believe The Things They Lecture Us About.

    "Tensions boil between Obame-Clinton camp." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Humming-birds, or "hummers," as the boys call them, are plenty in city and country and so fearless that they will take a bath in the spray of the garden-hose, or dart their long bills in the fuchsias almost within your reach.

    Stories of California Ella M. Sexton

  • Their land troubles include the regular Israeli bulldozing of the land, the last Israeli war on Gaza's extensive bombing throughout the Strip, and the daily threat from heavily-armed Israeli soldiers in military jeeps, "hummers" and in mechanized guard towers all along Gaza's border with Israel.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • Their land troubles include the regular Israeli bulldozing of the land, the last Israeli war on Gaza's extensive bombing throughout the Strip, and the daily threat from heavily-armed Israeli soldiers in military jeeps, "hummers" and in mechanized guard towers all along Gaza's border with Israel.

    Countercurrents.org 2010

  • But the thing is, if you could actually get away from all the cacophony of tappers and hummers, it was a pretty solid show.

    The youth vote 2009

  • My first car was a black 2000 Jeep Cherokee which I bought from a friend in 2001 for $1,200 and that thing saw more off-road time (in Arizona on the El Oso trail in 2002 and 2006) than these hummers will see in a damn year.

    Think Progress » Drilling Is Not The Solution To Create Jobs And Reduce Reliance On Foreign Oil 2010

  • Where are the soldiers of the caliber who asked Rumsfeld point-blank, in the field, why they had sub-standardcovers for their hummers.

    Officials: Obama to tap FBI to interrogate terrorists 2009

  • "We have hummers and butterflies here all year who can benefit from wildflowers," she says.

    Spring has sprung gardeners, and 3 in 4 Americans can dig it 2010

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