bounce
/baʊns/
Meaning
To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
A bang, boom.
To attack unexpectedly.
The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The sack, dismissal.
To bully; to scold.
To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
To boast; to bluster.
To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
An increase in popularity.
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
To move rapidly (between).
To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
Drugs.
To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
To race poorly after a successful race.
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
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.
An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
Swagger.
A talent for
A bang, boom.
To attack unexpectedly.
The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
The sack, dismissal.
To bully; to scold.
To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
To boast; to bluster.
To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
An increase in popularity.
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
To move rapidly (between).
To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
Drugs.
To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
To race poorly after a successful race.
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
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.
An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
Swagger.
A talent for
Examples
The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
He bounces nervously on his chair.
The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
He bounced the child on his knee.
The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
Word Forms
bounces
bouncing
bounced
Etymology
From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).