dump

A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.

Noun

  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
    • a toxic waste dump
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.

    1. (Internet slang) A disorganized collection of images posted on social media.

  4. An act of dumping, or its result.
    • The new XML dump is coming soon.
  5. A formatted listing of the contents of program storage, especially when produced automatically by a failing program.
  6. A storage place for supplies, especially military.
    • an ammo dump
    • a munitions dump
  7. An unpleasant, dirty, disreputable, unfashionable, boring, or depressing looking place.
    • This place looks like a dump.
    • Don't feel bad about moving away from this dump.
    • "Okay," he said. "We'll check out of this dump tomorrow." - 1951, John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, published 1954, page 184:
  8. An act of defecation; a defecating.
    • I have to take a dump.
  9. A sad, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; despondency.
    • […] doleful dumps the mind oppress […] - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […]...
    • […] I was musing in the midst of my dumps […] - 1678, John Bunyan, The Pilgrim’s Progress from This World, to That which is to Come: […], London: […] Nath[aniel] Ponder […], →OCLC:
    • March slowly on in solemn dump […] - 1663 (indicated as 1664), [Samuel Butler], “The Second Part of Hudibras”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published...
  10. Absence of mind; reverie.
    • They see not what passes before their eyes; hear not the audible discourse of the company; and when by any strong application to them they are roused a little, they are like men brought to themselves from some remote...
  11. A pile of ore or rock.
  12. A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune.
    • Tune a deploring dump […] - c. 1590–1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
    • O, play me some merry dump to comfort me. - c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London:...

Origin

From Middle English dumpen, dompen, probably from Old Norse dumpa (“to thump”) (whence Danish dumpe (“to fall suddenly”)), of uncertain origin, possibly imitative of falling, similar to thump.

Forms

dumps

Related

holey dollar

Derived

ashdump block dump blumpkin brain dump core dump crashdump crash dump cumdump down in the dumps dumpbin dump bin dump cake dumpcart dump core dump dinner dumpish dump job dump months dumpsite dump stat dump store dump tackle dump truck dumpy

Noun UK, archaic

  1. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  2. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
    • The capons were leaden representations of cocks and hens pitched at by leaden dumps. - 1825, William Hone, The Every Day Book:

Origin

See dumpling.

Forms

dumps

Noun Northern England

  1. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Origin

Cognate with Scots dump (“hole in the ground”), Norwegian dump (“a depression or hole in the ground”), German Low German dumpen (“to submerge”), Dutch dompen (“to dip, sink, submerge”).

Forms

dumps

Related

dimple dip

Verb

  1. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  2. To discard; to get rid of something one no longer wants.
    • The dawn of the oil age was fairly recent. Although the stuff was used to waterproof boats in the Middle East 6,000 years ago, extracting it in earnest began only in 1859 after an oil strike in Pennsylvania.[…]It was...
  3. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  4. To copy (data) from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
    • to dump the ROM from a rare Nintendo game cartridge
  5. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  6. To end a romantic relationship with.
    • Sarah dumped Nelson after finding out he was cheating on her.
  7. To knock heavily; to stump.
  8. To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it
    • We dumped the coal onto the fireplace.

    Synonyms: chuck heave bung cast chunk cook dash dump feck fling jerk hield hoy huck hurl hurtle launch lob peck peg pick pitch precipitate project

  9. To precipitate (especially snow) heavily.
  10. Of a surf wave, to crash a swimmer, surfer, etc., heavily downwards.
    • Blowing like a grampus from every orifice, I leaned on a passing wave which dumped me[.] - 1980, Ian Chappell, Chappelli has the last laugh, page 39:

Forms

dumps dumping dumped

Derived

antidumping book dumping dumpable dumpage dump-and-bake dump and burn dumpee dumper dumping car dump car dumping cart dump cart dumping ground dumping syndrome dump on dump one's load dump out dumpster Dumpsville fuel dumping gastric dumping syndrome granny dumping homeless dumping hump and dump