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| 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). |
| 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. |
| 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). |
| 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. |
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