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語源

From bumper (“(noun) thing which is particularly abundant, excellent, or large; (adjective) particularly abundant, excellent, or large”) +‎ crop, originally referring to a very large harvest of a crop.

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbʌmpə ˌkɹɒp/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈbʌmpəɹ ˌkɹɑp/
• ハイフネーション: bump‧er crop

名詞

bumper crop (plural bumper crops)

1. (idiomatic) An excess of something; a large yield.

   The kindergarten seems to have a bumper crop of new children this year.

   • 1991 February 11, Eric R. Rofes, “My Life As A Queer”, in Gay Community News, volume 18, number 29, page 10:

     And then the Gay Rights Movement took over and I watched a new generation of homos coming down the assembly line. The Anita Bryant and John Briggs madness of the late '70s brought a bumper crop of new activists onto the scene who were different than the Gay Lib queers.

Further reading

• bumper crop on Wikipedia.Wikipedia