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041 - American English Slang with Liz Johnson

American English Podcast

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What Is a Bummer?

Next we have bummer, and anything can really be a bummer. It's something that brings you down or makes you sad in a way. I usually say I'm bummed out if something is a bummer; it's not a complete catastrophe. Usually it's sort of like an unexpected situation or there's no alternative. So next we have to crash. To crash, obviously, maybe you know as a verb, like when two cars crash into one another,. but that's not the meaning we mean here.

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