THUMPER

Etymology

Noun

thumper (plural thumpers)

One who thumps.

(slang) A single-cylinder engine, especially four-stroke engines or those with large engine displacements.

A particular drinking game wherein players must remember personal hand signs while being distracted by others' banging on a table.

(slang) Something big, such as a lie; a whopper.

(UK, rail, slang) A kind of slam-door train introduced in the late 1950s.

Source: Wiktionary


Thump"er, n.

Definition: One who, or that which, thumps.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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RIGHT

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According to Guinness World Records, on 25 September 2016, the Birla Institute of Management Technology (India) in Uttar Pradesh, India, constructed the largest coffee cups pyramid consisting of 23,821 cups. They used paper takeaway coffee cups to build the pyramid.

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