But the cannabis hopefuls showing up at marijuana dispensaries got a bummer of a realization: Marijuana stores won’t be selling recreational weed anytime soon.—Peter Hecht, Sacramento Bee, 21 Feb. 2024 This year’s headlines on electric vehicles have been a bummer.—Aarian Marshall, WIRED, 15 Feb. 2024 In other words, all those digital copies are going away, too, which is a massive bummer for anyone who purchased — and later sold — eligible DVDs or Blu-rays, hoping to store the digital copies on Funimation forever.—Emma Roth, The Verge, 8 Feb. 2024 The lack of subscription discounts is a bummer, as are a few automation annoyances, but they can be overlooked when considering the big picture.—Gabriel Zamora, PCMAG, 31 Jan. 2024 No complaints about 3-1 overall last week, but the washout against the spread was a plain bummer.—Greg Cote, Miami Herald, 25 Jan. 2024 The bummer: Revenue is still down 20 percent to 21 percent from 2019, the last year before the COVID-19 crisis.—Pamela McClintock, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Dec. 2023 Eventually, a few people piped up, and DeSantis responded with a mélange of bummers.—Sarah Larson, The New Yorker, 14 Jan. 2024 Cable news can be a bummer, even in a festive season.—Tunku Varadarajan, WSJ, 5 Jan. 2024
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Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
probably modification of German Bummler loafer, from bummeln to dangle, loaf
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