bump into
verb (used with object)
1.
to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike: His car bumped a truck.
2.
to cause to strike or collide: He bumped the car against a tree.
3.
to dislodge or displace by the force of collision.
4.
Informal. to dislodge; to appropriate the privileges of: When the general found there were no additional seats on the plane, he bumped a major. The airline bumped me from the flight.
5.
to demote, promote, or dismiss: He was bumped from his job.
verb (used without object)
8.
to come in contact or collide with (often followed by against or into ): She bumped into me.
9.
to bounce along; proceed in a series of jolts: The old car bumped down the road.
10.
11.
to boil with violent jolts caused by the sudden eruption of large bubbles through the surface.
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noun
Verb phrases 12.
an act or instance of bumping; collision; blow.
13.
the shock of a blow or collision.
14.
a swelling or contusion from a blow.
15.
a small area raised above the level of the surrounding surface; protuberance: He tripped over a bump on a road.
16.
Informal. a promotion or demotion; transfer to a higher or lower level: He got a bump to vice president of the company.
17.
Informal. an increase in amount, especially of salary or a wager: He asked the boss for a ten-dollar bump.
18.
Aeronautics. a rapidly rising current of air that gives an airplane a severe upward thrust.
19.
20.
21.
bump into, Informal. to meet by chance: I bumped into an old friend yesterday.
22.
bump off, Slang. to kill, especially to murder: They bumped him off because he knew too much.
Origin:
1560–70; imitative
1560–70; imitative
Related forms
bump·ing·ly, adverb
un·bumped, adjective
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bump (bʌmp) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —vb (when intr | |
| 1. | to knock or strike with a jolt |
| 2. | to travel or proceed in jerks and jolts |
| 3. | (tr) to hurt by knocking: he bumped his head on the ceiling |
| 4. | (tr) to knock out of place; dislodge: the crash bumped him from his chair |
| 5. | (Brit) (tr) to throw (a child) into the air, one other child holding each limb, and let him down again to touch the ground |
| 6. | (in rowing races, esp at Oxford and Cambridge) to catch up with and touch (another boat that started a fixed distance ahead) |
| 7. | cricket to bowl (a ball) so that it bounces high on pitching or (of a ball) to bounce high when bowled |
| 8. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) (intr) to dance erotically by thrusting the pelvis forward (esp in the phrase bump and grind) |
| 9. | (tr) poker to raise (someone) |
| 10. | informal (tr) to exclude a ticket-holding passenger from a flight as a result of overbooking |
| 11. | informal (tr) to displace (someone or something) from a previously allocated position: the story was bumped from the front page |
| 12. | slang (US) bump uglies to have sexual intercourse |
| —n | |
| 13. | an impact; knock; jolt; collision |
| 14. | a dull thud or other noise from an impact or collision |
| 15. | the shock of a blow or collision |
| 16. | a lump on the body caused by a blow |
| 17. | a protuberance, as on a road surface |
| 18. | any of the natural protuberances of the human skull, said by phrenologists to indicate underlying faculties and character |
| 19. | a rising current of air that gives an aircraft a severe upward jolt |
| 20. | (plural) the act of bumping a child. See sense 5 |
| 21. | rowing See bumping race the act of bumping |
| 22. | cricket bump ball a ball that bounces into the air after being hit directly into the ground by the batsman |
| [C16: probably of imitative origin] | |
| bump into | |
| —vb | |
| informal (intr, preposition) to meet by chance; encounter unexpectedly | |
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Word Origin & History
bump
1610s, verb and noun, perhaps from Scandinavian, probably echoic, original sense was "hitting" then of "swelling from being hit." Also has a long association with obsolete bum "to make a booming noise," which perhaps influenced surviving senses like bumper crop, for something full to the brim. To bump
into "meet" is from 1880s; to bump off "kill" is 1908 in underworld slang.
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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