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Dump can mean:

  • A landfill (usually a less formal and well-contained one)
  • A midden, a mound for dumping domestic waste.
  • Ammunition dump, a location for storing a large amount of material
  • Dump (currency) is the inner part of an Australian holey dollar valued at fifteen pence
  • Dump (program) is a Unix program for backing up file systems
  • dUMP (biochemistry) is 2'-deoxyuridine-5'-phosphate

Operation that happens to data, in computing, often for debugging or recovery:

Other meanings include:

  • Slang term for a shabby or unkempt room or area. "This place is a dump"
  • Slang term for one method of credit card fraud by selling stolen credit card data in underground markets with captions like "Dumps for sale". The price varies according to the data available and balance available. Dumps with a balance more than $100 are priced around $50. Premium is usually demanded if info like passwords and mother's maiden names are available.
  • "The Dump" was one of the earliest web sites for "dumped" Sega Genesis ROM images
  • A way of referring to human feces or the act of eliminating it. (e.g., "taking a dump")


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