Thumber

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who thumbs (a book, one's nose, etc.).

    "Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements."

  2. 2
    One who thumbs a lift; a hitchhiker.

    "Several months ago every city and many of the towns in which we operate were flooded with a cartoon flyer warning autoists of the legal risks involved in picking up thumbers."

Example

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"Dylan Thomas was another thesaurus thumber, and in his work too the words it supplied were not always improvements."

Etymology

From thumb + -er.

Related phrases

thumb lift

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