hummer

One who hums.

Judy hummed to herself. “My mother was a hummer,” LeVecque said, without looking at her.

Will you be a singer or sad scared little hummer?

A Humvee.

A type of vehicle resembling a jeep but bulkier.

The newlyweds took a hummer limo back to their casino resort.

Some playa's^([sic]) had went^([sic]) all out, showing up in chauffeured Navigator and Hummer limousines.

A hummingbird.

July roth saw the first spotted egg hardly larger than a “hummer's,” lying in the nest.

The Sargents' status as hummingbird gurus is unrivaled and well deserved. They began banding hummers back in 1988, when, Bob says, there were only 28 other banders in the country.

A humdinger; something or someone exceptional or outstanding of their type.

"Ain't it a hummer of a day?" Jim exclaimed, suddenly, looking toward the valley swimming in a silver mist below us. "By Jiminy! it makes a man feel like living, don't it?"

Dad's a real hummer at poker.

An arrest on false pretexts.

The conspiracy rap was a hummer.

She mentioned the cute little Eyetalian cop that booked her on a hummer.

A brand of sport utility vehicles sold by General Motors, and by extension, any large similar vehicle.

Hummers are a somewhat unusual sight in New York. The kinds of people who like them as status symbols often don’t like the city’s narrow, messy street configurations, which can be hard for bulky vehicles to manage.

The HMMWV or Humvee, a US Army vehicle which replaced the Jeep.

"The vehicle is called the 'Hummer,' a contrived abbreviation of its official designation, 'High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle.'"

"The Hummer, a clumsy, elongated vehicle the Army intended as a replacement for the hardy Jeep, developed so many problems it became known as the Bummer."