What is Umberger?
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Verb. To level to the ground or absolutely destroy a person or thing to the extent where they or it is rendered useless.
Synonyms: ruin, crush, demolish, murder, kill.
This term came into the hockey chirp lexicon directly after the events of April 22, 2006 when Buffalo Sabres defenseman Brian Campbell caught Philadelphia Flyers forward R.J. Umberger breaking out of his zone with his head down at which point Umberger was laid out with a hit so big that it left him wondering what the Zamboni was doing on the ice with 8:33 left in OT.
1: "If that plug doesn't stop slashing me I'm going to umberger him."
2: "My defense partner put a guy on the trolley tracks, so I umbergered him."
3: "I wasn't paying attention crossing the road and almost got umbergered by a bus."
4: R.J.Umberger was umbergered so hard that he did not know he was umbergered right after he got umbergered.
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