Noun
an informal expression for a mildly depressed state
Source: WordNetSlang is the speech of him who robs the literary garbage carts on their way to the dumps. Ambrose Bierce
The woods eats the woman and dumps her honey-body in the mud, Her dress floats down the well and it assumes the shape of the body of a little girl, Yeah, I recognize that girl, She stumbled in some time last loneliness, But I could not stand to touch her now, My one and only onlyness. Nick Cave
I get in the dumps at times, and don't open my mouth for days on end. You must not think I am sulky when I do that. Just let me alone, and I'll soon be right. Arthur Conan Doyle
Then gave him some familiar Thumps, A College Joke to cure the Dumps. Jonathan Swift
When griping grief the heart doth wound, And doleful dumps the mind oppress, Then music with her silver sound. William Shakespeare
Rarely is there money in the federal bureaucracy for the cultural and environmental needs of the Natives. I find it ironic however, that federal monies always miraculously appear to study and develop coal strip miners, uranium mines and nuclear waste dumps on Reservations. Winona LaDuke