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dumps

/dʌmps/ · noun

Meaning

  1. A place where waste or garbage is left; a ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.; a disposal site.
  2. A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
  3. That which is dumped, especially in a chaotic way; a mess.
  4. An act of dumping, or its result.
  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.
  7. To release, especially in large quantities and chaotic manner.
  8. To discard; to get rid of something one does not want anymore.
  9. To sell below cost or very cheaply; to engage in dumping.
  10. To copy data from a system to another place or system, usually in order to archive it.
  11. To output the contents of storage or a data structure, often in order to diagnose a bug.
  12. To end a relationship with.
  13. A thick, ill-shapen piece.
  14. A lead counter used in the game of chuck-farthing.
  15. A deep hole in a river bed; a pool.

Etymology / origin

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Sources

  1. DictionaryAPI.dev English dictionary data
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