bummer

bummer
n
1.
a bad experience, a disappointment.
An American expression (said to have originated in the jargon of the racetrack where it meant a loss which reduced one to the status of a bum) which spread to Britain and Australia in the hippy era of the late 1960s. It is still heard, although by the late 1980s it was dated. The meaning of the term was reinforced by the expression 'a bum trip', referring to an unpleasant experience with LSD.
► 'So okay, it looks like a bummer. But maybe...maybe you can still get some-thing out of it.' (The Switch, Elmore Leonard, 1978)
2.
British
a male homosexual, in play-ground usage

Contemporary slang . 2014.

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