Meaning of Bump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A light blow or jolting collision.
   countable, uncountable
3. The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
   countable, uncountable
4. The sound of such a collision.
   countable, uncountable
5. A protuberance on a level surface.
   countable, uncountable
6. A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
   countable, uncountable
7. One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymic) the faculty itself
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
8. The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
   countable, uncountable
9. The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
   countable, uncountable
10. A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
    Internet, countable, uncountable
11. A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
    countable, uncountable
12. A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
    countable, slang, uncountable
13. A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump their hips together.
    countable, uncountable
14. In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
    countable, uncountable
15. A coarse cotton fabric.
    uncountable
16. A training match for a fighting dog.
    countable, uncountable
17. The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
    countable, slang, uncountable
18. Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
    US, slang, uncountable
19. A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
    US, countable, uncountable
20. A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
    countable, uncountable
21. In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
    countable, uncountable
22. A minor problem or difficulty.
    colloquial, countable, uncountable
23. A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
    countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.”

“He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.”

“It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.”

“the bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness”

“Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.”

“Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.”

“US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.”

““They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.””

“We sing […] "God Save the Queen" done in mime and finally "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" to a Hawaiian rock with Phoebe doing the bump.”

“Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.”

“For example, chain bumping, in which a bump by one employee initiates a series of consecutive bumps down a progression line before a layoff results, produces the greatest average number of reassignments per redundant employee.”

“"I'll try my best, but we still have a few bumps to work out," Ryder muttered.”

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