[
US
/ˈdəmps/
]
[ UK /dˈʌmps/ ]
[ UK /dˈʌmps/ ]
NOUN
-
an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
in the dumps
have the mopes
How To Use dumps In A Sentence
- She subsequently has to steal, freeload and dumpster-dive to get by. Times, Sunday Times
- Are either of these devices what you really need for data dumps from one PC to another?
- I am not sure if all dumps are this smelly - I know that all dumps are odorous - but it was stinky.
- It was pitch black inside the dumpster with only a slither of light entering through the crack of the lid.
- Recycling also helps control environmental pollution by reducing the need for waste dumps.
- Every time someone dumps their rubbish or unwanted furniture here, we have to sort it out.
- Successive home defeats by Manchester United, Partizan Belgrade and Birmingham inside eight days left the 70-year-old down in the dumps and scratching his head.
- Waste was hauled by truck to various designated dumps, and the ore was to be stockpiled or to be directly crushed, screened, and agglomerated.
- The boss dumps on Jane and she dumps on the junior staff.
- THE SUN'S SUNK behind the row of trees and clapboard cottages on the shore, past the reef and its traffic — fishermen and jetskiers heading back to houses and bars — past where the Connecticut River dumps its brackish load into Long Island Sound. Monkeytown prologue/chapter first