bumper crop/harvest• Jacques was speaking enthusiastically about the crop of grapes which the vines had produced, and was prophesying a bumper harvest.• Picture your gardenbed of cucumbers, a very large patch of them, a bumper crop.• This year, however, it looks like a bumper crop.• The only thing I see them reaping is a bumper crop of boredom.• He also contends that Democrats have not produced a bumper crop of congressional candidates this year.• Potatoes INSTEAD of destroying their bumper crop of potatoes, farmers should give them to the needy.• Apple trees were straining beneath the weight of a bumper crop of what looked like Cox's orange pippins.• Without a bumper harvest, refinancing will saddle many farmers with more debt that they can handle.
ADJECTIVE | BUMPER + NOUN | PHRASESADJECTIVE➤front前保險槓▸➤back, rear後保險槓BUMPER + NOUN➤car (especially NAmE) (usually dodgem in BrE)碰碰車PHRASES➤bumper to bumper一輛接一輛地◇The cars crawled along bumper to bumper (= very close to each other).汽車一輛輛首尾相接緩慢行駛。