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- noun Plural form of
hummer .
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Examples
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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?
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The birds, often called hummers, will find blue, purple and yellow flowers appealing as well.
unknown title 2009
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Where are the soldiers of the caliber who asked Rumsfeld point-blank, in the field, why they had sub-standardcovers for their hummers.
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"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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