bumper crop
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- noun
- /ˈbʌmpər krɑp/
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- In 1870, the drought ended, and many local farmers raised bumper crops of wheat, corn, and cotton.
- produce bumper crops
- bumper crop this year
- harvest a bumper crop
Examples
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And I thought Oh my gosh, we are going to have a bumper crop of pears this year.
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This year, the farmer celebrated a bumper crop of tomatoes, much larger than last year's harvest.
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We seem to get a bumper crop every year.
Fiction book (1999) -
And I was assured by the van driver that the boxes will contain a bumper crop.
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At the end of that year, We had a bumper crop of seed mealies.
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The country is blessed with a bumper crop, and inflationary pressures are being beaten back.
Academic text (2017) -
The seeds I started in my greenhouse back in February have yielded a bumper crop of tomatoes.
Blog text (12) -
After months of ideal weather, the village enjoyed a bumper crop of wheat, ensuring plenty of food for all.
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Due to careful cultivation, the orchard had a bumper crop of apples, attracting many visitors for the picking season.
Synonyms
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A time when crops grow well and give a lot of food
A large amount of food grown and gathered by farmers
Antonyms
How Large
Surface Forms
Morphology
bumper + crop
While 'crop' clearly refers to a harvest, the meaning of 'bumper' here ('unusually large') is not the prototypical sense learners know (e.g. a car bumper) and is not transparently derivable from the literal constituents. The phrase becomes understandable once the adjectival sense of 'bumper' is known, so the relation is partial rather than fully predictable to a B1 learner.
Etymology
Bumper crop may come from the old word bumper, which once meant a very full, overflowing cup. People began using bumper to describe something 'very large', so a bumper crop came to 'mean' 'an unusually large harvest'.