Thumper

Thumper

Thumper may refer to:
* Project Thumper, a project by the General Electric Company to defend the USA against V2 missiles. [citation|url=http://www.airpower.maxwell.af.mil/airchronicles/apj/apj87/win87/papp.html|title=From Project Thumper to SDI|author=Dr Daniel S. Papp|publisher=Airpower Journal|date=Winter 1987-88]
* Thumper (Medicine), an oxygen or electric powered CPR Assist Device.
* Thumper (Motorcycle), a four-stroke single cylinder motorcycle
* Bible thumper, a derisive term used to describe Christian fundamentalists
* Diesel-Electric Multiple Unit, the British Rail Class 205 and Class 207 diesel electric multiple units are nicknamed Thumpers
* M79 Grenade launcher, a weapon nicknamed "Thumper"
* Sun Fire X4500, a storage server code-named "Thumper"
* WORTH produces first official NCAA Collegiate aluminum baseball bat, The Tennessee "Thumper" in 1974.
* "Thumper", a song by Raging Speedhorn on the album "Raging Speedhorn"
* "Thumper", a popular drinking game.
* Jeremy Paxman, host of "University Challenge"
* Restrictor, a machine in the game "Half-Life 2", also known as Thumpers
* "Thumper", a term used to name the Activity Indicator in early versions of Mozilla Firefox
* "Thumper" is a character from the Twisted Metal series of Sony Playstation. He is portraited as an African-American South Central 'gangsta' that drives a pink-and-white 64 Impala-like car.

in fictional characters:
* Thumper (Bambi), a rabbit in the Disney animated film "Bambi"
* Thumper, a quarry driller in "Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends"
* Thumper, Hopper's pet grasshopper in "A Bug's Life"
* Thumper, a recurring character in the television show "Veronica Mars"
* Thumper (Dune), a mechanical device in the science fiction novel "Dune"
* Thumper, a character in the James Bond film "Diamonds Are Forever"

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