hummer

1. 1.

   a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words

   Broadersinger
2. 2.

   (baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity

   “he swung late on the fastball”

   “he showed batters nothing but smoke”

   Synonymsfastballheatersmokebullet

   Broaderpitch

   Narrowerslider

   baseball

Other forms of hummer

plural

hummers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hummer

What does hummer mean?

hummer means "a singer who produces a tune without opening the lips or forming words". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hummer?

hummer has 2 syllables: hum-mer. The stress falls on "hum". In IPA it is /ˈhʌmɚ/.

What is another word for hummer?

Close synonyms include fastball, heater, smoke, bullet. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hummer a common word?

hummer is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.