bounce

Plural: bounces

Noun

• the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
• a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
• rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
• A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
• A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
• An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
• 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.
• The sack, dismissal.
• A bang, boom.
• A drink based on brandy.ᵂ
• A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
• Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
• Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
• A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
• Drugs.
• Swagger.
• A good beat in music.
• A talent for leaping.
• An increase in popularity.
• 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.
• The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.

Verb

Verb Forms: bounced, bouncing, bounces

• To spring back upon impact; rebound.
• spring back; spring away from an impact
  • "The rubber ball bounced"
• hit something so that it bounces
  • "bounce a ball"
• move up and down repeatedly
• come back after being refused
  • "the check bounced"
• leap suddenly
  • "He bounced to his feet"
• refuse to accept and send back
  • "bounce a check"
• eject from the premises
  • "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
• To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
• 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 suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
• To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
• To move rapidly (between).
• To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
• To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
• To leave.
• To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
• To have sexual intercourse.
• To attack unexpectedly.
• To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
• To return undelivered.
• To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
• To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
• 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.
• To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
• To bully; to scold.
• To boast; to bluster.
• To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
• To race poorly after a successful race.

Examples

• After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
• Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
• bouncing stems
• He bounced the child on his knee.
• He bounces nervously on his chair.
• He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
• His carefully planned word seemed to BOUNCE off the opponent’s strong defense.
• I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
• Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
• See if it helps to bounce the router.
• She bounced happily into the room.
• The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
• 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.
• The squadron was bounced north of the town.
• The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
• The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
• Them pro-ballers got bounce!
• We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
• What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.

Synonyms

bounciness, bouncing, bound, jounce, leap, leaping, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, saltation, spring, take a hop, Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, Netflix and chill, approach, bang, bauf, beat, bob, bobbing, boff, boink, bone, bonk, bop, bounce, bounce back, breed, bump nasties, bump uglies, catch a dick, cohabit, company, copulate, couple, dance, dip one's pen in someone's inkwell, discuss Uganda, do it, do the deed, do the nasty, dope, drug, eff, engage in sex, engender, exchange flesh, expletive deleted, feck, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, gear, get busy, get down, get freaky, get it, get it on, get jiggy, get laid, get lucky, get one's dick wet, get one's end away, get one's freak on, get one's groove on, get one's leg over, get one's oats, get physical, get some, get the dirty water off one's chest, go all the way, graft the forked tree, haul one's ashes, have intimate relations, have it away, have it off, have marital relations, have sex, have sexual relations, hide the salami, hide the sausage, hide the wienie, hike the Appalachian Trail, hook up, horse, houndfish, hump, intercourse, jig-jig, knock boots, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay pipe, lay the pipe, mad ups, make it, make love, make out, make the beast with two backs, make whoopee, mate, meddle, ming, morgay, no-stride, penetrate, pipe, pipe down, play, play hide the sausage, rail, recreational drug, ride, rock and roll, roger, roll around, root, screw, see someone's etchings, sex, shag, share a bed, shelve, show someone one's etchings, slap bellies, sleep together, small-spotted catshark, stick, strain, stuff, substance, tumble, ups

Antonyms

clear

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