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Hummer

noun

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

(baseball) a pitch thrown with maximum velocity. Synonyms: bullet, fastball, heater, smoke. "He showed batters nothing but smoke"

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"Hummer" Quotes from Famous Books

... answer in the affirmative they say "It is SO," "It does SO." The word "hum," too, without pronouncing the U, is in amusing requisition. I perceived that this stood either for assent, or doubt, or wonder, or a general expression of comprehension without compromising the hummer's own opinion, and indeed for a great many more things than these; in fact, if a man did not want to say anything at all he said "hum hum." It is a very good expression, and saves much trouble when its familiar use has been acquired. Beyond these ...

— A First Year in Canterbury Settlement • Samuel Butler

... a woman's been runnin' sheep with. Mighty unusual they'll take up with a man after that. I used to be married to a Indian woman up on the Big Wind that was some hummer trainin' sheep-dogs. That woman could sell 'em for a hundred dollars apiece as fast as she could raise 'em and train 'em up, and them dad-splashed collies they'd purt' near all come back home after she'd sold 'em. Say, I've knowed them dogs to ...

— The Flockmaster of Poison Creek • George W. Ogden

Words linked to "Hummer" : fastball, singer, delivery, slider, vocalist, hum, pitch, baseball, baseball game, smoke, vocalizer, heater, vocaliser