HUMMER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hummer mean? 

• HUMMER (noun)
  The noun HUMMER has 2 senses:

1. a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words

2. (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

  Familiarity information: HUMMER used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HUMMER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("hummer" is a kind of...):

singer; vocaliser; vocalist; vocalizer (a person who sings)

Derivation:

hum (sing with closed lips)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

bullet; fastball; heater; hummer; smoke

Context example:

he showed batters nothing but smoke

Hypernyms ("hummer" is a kind of...):

delivery; pitch ((baseball) the act of throwing a baseball by a pitcher to a batter)

Domain category:

ball; baseball; baseball game (a ball game played with a bat and ball between two teams of nine players; teams take turns at bat trying to score runs)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hummer"):

slider (a fastball that curves slightly away from the side from which it was thrown)

 Context examples 

"Gee, but you're a hummer!" Joe announced, as they sat down to breakfast in a corner of the hotel kitchen.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)