The word "bumper" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the metal frame or bar that helps protect the edges of a vehicle from damage if it hits something. Example: She backed up the car and bumped into a nearby bumper.
The lorries are bumper to bumper, 24 hours a day.
John, who had a "Sharia-free zone" bumper sticker on his pickup truck, described the attendees as a "very constitutionalist, very Christian crowd".
The chancellor, George Osborne, hailed the surplus as a sign that the economy is improving, but critics warned it was largely a one-off event that benefited from bumper self-assessment receipts in January.
To give you an idea of the scale of this dredging, if all of the spoil was put into dump trucks, there would be 150,000 of them lined up bumper to bumper from Brisbane to Melbourne.
Most of the queasiness stems from the continued accumulation of bumper compensation packages.
On other racks were bumper stickers proclaiming that friends did not let friends vote Republican (or Democratic, depending on the side of the stall).The lefty side offered "global-warming disappearing coastline" mugs, which depict a map of the continents that shrink when hot liquid is poured into the vessel.
Since then many firms have concluded that only the offer of bumper pay packages will attract and keep top talent.
The prospect of bumper cereal crops has boosted confidence about short-term supply.
Yard signs and bumper stickers have sprouted, and on June 14th protesters marched to Busch stadium, one of the many fruits of Anheuser-Busch's 150 years in St Louis.Despite the local jokes about pouring Bud on Belgian waffles and Jean-Claude Van Damme karate-chopping the Clydesdale horses that pull the famous Budweiser beer wagon, a serious fear besets the opposition.
Instead of yearning for new sources of extra revenue after years of bumper budgets, doctors should accept that securing better value for money must be the priority.
The bumper crop in Tanzania was a benefit mainly to farmers, who had access to storage facilities and links to market opportunities.
