(n.) An idle, worthless fellow, who is without any visible means of support; a dissipated sponger.
Example Sentences:
(1) What a bummer.” Wolf Blitzer and Chuck Schumer said their own goodbyes, and secretary of state John Kerry thanked The Daily Show host for reliably putting him to sleep every night.
(2) Feig called the poster "a bummer" and expressed regret that he had so little control over the film's promotional materials.
(3) But let’s pause and turn up the bummer dial on the amp and consider a few more practical things: 1.
(4) He harps repeatedly on “liberal progressives” and goes back into the history books to castigate them, because otherwise the theory that Obama is not a Beltway centrist bummer and is instead the apotheosis of a “liberal progressive tradition” makes no sense.
(5) Slate is the star of the independent film Obvious Child , which has been hugely feted since its release in the States and, somewhat less pleasingly for all those involved in the movie, been dubbed by the US media as “the abortion romcom.” “Ugh, that is such a bummer, that term.
(6) Summer on Channel 4, then: quite literally a bummer.
(7) For a less chill national party chairman, the kind of headlines about Bannon that have surfaced in the last week could be a real bummer.
(8) In the meantime, she knows the reality of trying to beat the spammers: "The bummer is that it's an arms race," Harvey says.
(9) Almond and kale smoothie Gwyneth Paltrow juice recipes: Almond & Kale Photograph: Rob White for the Guardian This might sound like a bummer, but it's incredibly delicious and absolutely packed with nutrition.
Choker
Definition:
(n.) One who, or that which, chokes.
(n.) A stiff wide cravat; a stock.
Example Sentences:
(1) It always seems strange that a team so relentlessly consistent in the regular season should have started to build a reputation as chokers in home elimination games, but thankfully for RSL, that reputation is gone, along with the two-time defending champions the Galaxy.
(2) RSL meanwhile have (thus far at least) dealt another blow to their reputation as home field chokers.
(3) High point Claiming the title in Melbourne in January 2006, after being dismissed for many years as a “choker”.
(4) membership callout Trump also did a better job at controlling his emotions when Hillary tried to bait him by calling him a choker and a “puppet”.
(5) Romney was dismissed by Donald Trump, the television personality and real estate magnate, as a “choker” who had had his turn while Bush’s support for the controversial Common Core educational standards was attacked by others.
(6) Jerome Kaino, Kieran Read, Brad Thorn and Richie McCaw do not have the air of chokers about them; behind the scrum Cory Jane gave one of the great aerial catching exhibitions and Israel Dagg again showed himself to be a monumental talent.
(7) Their Plan A isn't working and their Plan B is sitting on the bench ruing another wasted opportunity to show everybody that he's not a complete over-rated choker.
(8) I became his next target, and the incoming attacks have been constant and brutal.” Asked by the Journal about Romney, Trump stayed true to form, saying: “Once a choker, always a choker.
(9) Risk was greatest for tree fellers and choker-setters.
(10) Spanish optimism here is tempered only by the knowledge that their record in the World Cup has been so poor, so ignominious at times, they have grown wearily accustomed over the decades to the allegation that sportsmen dislike the most – that of being chokers.
(11) The LeBron-as-choker narrative has two fatal flaws: the pair of NBA titles the 29-year-old has already won.
(12) Hopefully, this will soon happen to the narrative of LeBron as a big-game choker.
(13) Lose it, on the other hand, and they will be damned as chronic chokers and many fans will call for Wenger to be ushered into retirement.
(14) Her mass of black curls swept across her head in a style adopted by Lorde, she's dressed up in a ribbon choker, silver slip dress, goth flatforms and a tatty leather jacket.
(15) I’ve got a store worth more than he is.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Trump calls Romney a ‘choker’ during a rally with supporters in Anaheim, California.
(16) Manning is not the choker that some make him out to be Peyton Manning still has one more hurdle to clear.
(17) We don’t come to Washington as shooters and chokers,” he shouted.