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bounce

/baʊns/

verb 24
noun 18
forms 4
phrases 8

verb24

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to hit something hard and at once move back away from it, often up into the air
- The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
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To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
- The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
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To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
- He bounces nervously on his chair.
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To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
- He bounced the child on his knee.
- The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
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To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
- She bounced happily into the room.
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(informal) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
- We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
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(informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
- He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
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(informal) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
- I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
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(slang) To leave.
- Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
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(Internet) To return undelivered.
- What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
- The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
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(slang, old-fashioned) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
- Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro. — 1946
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(US, slang) To work as a bouncer.
- I met him back when he bounced at the bar where I worked.
To move rapidly (between).
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To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
- See if it helps to bounce the router.
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To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
- Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
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To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
- bouncing stems
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To attack unexpectedly.
- The squadron was bounced north of the town.
(slang) To have sexual intercourse.
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To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
- After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
(slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
(slang) To travel to a less busy section of a railway line, against one's intended direction of travel, usually for the purpose of obtaining a seat.
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(no longer used) To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
- Another bounces as hard as he can knock. — 1708
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(slang, no longer used) To bully; to scold.
- Would I had him here again, I would so bounce him, I would so thank his lordship for his lewd plot. — 1621
(slang, no longer used) To boast; to bluster.

noun18

A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
(informal) An increase in popularity.
(Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
(slang) Swagger.
(slang) A good beat in music.
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(slang) A talent for leaping.
- Them pro-ballers got bounce!
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(slang) The sack, dismissal.
- Or how about, "Turn in your rubber/A pound or an ounce/It will all help our soldiers/Give Hitler the bounce." — 1942
(slang) Drugs.
A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
(slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
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(no longer used) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
- The bounce burst ope the door. — 1685
(no longer used) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
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(no longer used) A bang, boom.
- I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker. — 1773
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(no longer used) A drink based on brandy, cherry bounce.
- A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts. — 1870

forms

bounced · bouncing · bounces · bounceth

Phrases with bounce

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