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When in history did people first start calling big things bumper e.g bumper Christmas special and why? ?

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When in history did people first start calling big things bumper e.g bumper Christmas special and why? ?

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I believe it originally used as an agricultural term – “Bumper Crop” doing a search on that, I found this: “bumper in the 17th century was a large glass of beer or wine that was filled to the brim, hence the sense of bumper as large”