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bumper to bumper

[of traffic] close together and moving slowly. The traffic is bumper to bumper from the accident up ahead.

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bumper to bumper

having almost no space between cars and moving very slowly Traffic is bumper to bumper from the Midtown Tunnel all that way out to exit 17 on the Turnpike.

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bumper to bumper

vehicles that are bumper to bumper are in a line one after another and are moving very slowly or stopped Cars were lined up bumper to bumper along the whole length of the road.

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bumper sticker

n. a car or other vehicle following too closely on one’s bumper. (A reapplication of the term for a kind of adhesive sign stuck on a car bumber.) I can’t talk now, I’ve got a bumper sticker that’s taking all my attention.

See also: bumper, sticker

fanny-bumper

n. an event that draws so many people that they bump into one another. There was a typically dull fanny-bumper in the village last night.

Get off my bumper!

1. exclam. Stop following my car so closely! Don’t follow me so close! Get off my bumper!

2. exclam. Stop monitoring me!; Get off my back! Look, man. I can take care of myself. Get off my bumper!

See also: get, off

up in someone’s gold ones

and up on someone’s bumper

n. in someone’s face. (Alludes to gold teeth.) He had his smelly face up in my gold ones, so I clobbered him. Why are you up on my bumper, dawg?

See also: gold, one, up

up on someone’s bumper

verb

See up in someone’s gold ones

See also: bumper, on, up