Meaning of bounce | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
   countable, uncountable
2. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
   countable, uncountable
3. An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
   Internet, countable, uncountable
4. 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.
   countable, uncountable
5. The sack, dismissal.
   countable, slang, uncountable
6. A bang, boom.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
7. A drink based on brandy.ᵂ
   archaic, countable, uncountable
8. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
9. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
   archaic, countable, uncountable
10. Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
    countable, uncountable
11. A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
    uncountable
12. Drugs.
    slang, uncountable
13. Swagger.
    slang, uncountable
14. A good beat in music.
    slang, uncountable
15. A talent for leaping.
    slang, uncountable
16. An increase in popularity.
    countable, informal, uncountable
17. 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.
    countable, uncountable
18. The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
    countable, slang, uncountable

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Examples

“Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.”

“Someone more clever than I said, "It's not the bounce that counts, it's the bounce back. "”

“Customers said I was a hoot; management gave me the bounce.”

“I was no longer with the Oakhaven Hospital when I decided to come out here to the island; they'd fired me when they traced a long-distance call I'd made to San Francisco, under the director's name, to a man the papers had said got pinched out there, under suspicion of having lifted a poke with 10 grand in it—but later released—a man named Andy Glover. I thought sure he was a certain lug who'd been in stir with me, and thought to make a touch—however, skip it!—the point is that it was the wrong Andy Glover!—the call got traced to the phone in the hospital urinal room—and I got the bounce.”

“I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.”

“A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.”

“He had one hand on the bounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.”

“The bounce burst ope the door.”

“And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter”

“Them pro-ballers got bounce!”

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