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Hammer

nounproper nouncommon in dialogue

someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

noun

  1. 1

    someone connected with West Ham Football Club, as a fan, player, coach etc.

Etymology

Shortened West Ham + -er, with a pun on hammer.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A surname.

Forms

plural
Hammers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).