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bump

  [buhmp]
Use bump into in a Sentence
–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.
6. Informal. to force upward; raise: Demand from abroad bumped the price of corn.
7. Poker. raise (def. 24).
–verb (used without object)
8. to come in contact or collide with (often fol. 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. to dance by thrusting the pelvis forward abruptly, in a provocative manner, esp. to the accompaniment of an accented musical beat. Compare grind (def. 13).
11. to boil with violent jolts caused by the sudden eruption of large bubbles through the surface.
–noun
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, esp. 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. a dance movement in which the pelvis is abruptly thrust forward in a provocative manner, esp. to the accompaniment of an accented musical beat. Compare grind (def. 19).
20. Mining. crump (def. 6).
—Verb phrases
21. bump into, Informal. to meet by chance: I bumped into an old friend yesterday.
22. bump off, Slang. to kill, esp. to murder: They bumped him off because he knew too much.
Origin:
1560–70; imit.

Related forms:
bump⋅ing⋅ly, adverb
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bump   (bŭmp)   
v.   bumped, bump·ing, bumps

v.   tr.

  1. To strike or collide with.

  2. To cause to knock against an obstacle.

    1. To knock to a new position; shift: bumped the crate out of the way.

    2. To shake up and down; jolt: bumped the child on her knee; was bumped about on a rough flight.

    3. To displace from a position within a group or organization.

    4. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking.

    1. To displace from a position within a group or organization.

    2. To deprive (a passenger) of a reserved seat because of overbooking.

  5. To raise; boost: bump up the price of gasoline.

  6. Sports To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms.

v.   intr.

  1. To hit or knock against something.

  2. To proceed with jerks and jolts: bumped along slowly over the rocky terrain.

  3. Sports To bump a volleyball.

n.  

    1. A blow, collision, or jolt.

    2. The sound of something bumping: heard a loud bump in the dark.

    3. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge.

    4. A slight swelling or lump.

    5. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump.

    1. A raised or rounded spot; a bulge.

    2. A slight swelling or lump.

    3. Something, such as unevenness or a hole in a road, that causes a bump.

  3. A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment.

  4. One of the natural protuberances on the human skull, considered to have significance in phrenology.

  5. A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease.

  6. Sports A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together.

  7. Slang A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser.

Phrasal Verb(s):
bump intoTo meet by chance: I often bump into him at the supermarket.
bump off Slang To murder.

[Imitative.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
bump

  1. tv.
    to remove someone from an airplane flight, usually involuntarily, because of overbooking. : They bumped me but gave me something to make up for it.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

bump 
1611, perhaps Scand., probably echoic, original sense was "hitting" then of "swelling from being hit." Also has a long association with obs. bum "to make a booming noise," which influenced surviving senses like bumper crop, for something full to the brim. Bumpers first recorded 1839, on railroad cars; 1926 on automobiles. To bump into "meet" is from 1880s; to bump off "kill" is 1908 in underworld slang.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Idioms & Phrases

bump into

  1. Also, bump against. Collide, come in contact with; same as bang into. For example, It's easy to bump into furniture in the dark. [Mid-1800s]

  2. Encounter, meet by chance, as in While I was downtown, I bumped into George. [Colloquial; 1880s] Also see run into.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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