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bump

   [buhmp]
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.
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6.
Informal. to force upward; raise: Demand from abroad bumped the price of corn.
7.
Poker. raise (def. 24).
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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.
to dance by thrusting the pelvis forward abruptly, in a provocative manner, especially 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.

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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.
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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.
a dance movement in which the pelvis is abruptly thrust forward in a provocative manner, especially to the accompaniment of an accented musical beat. Compare grind (def. 19).
20.
Mining. crump (def. 6).
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Verb phrases
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

Related forms
bump·ing·ly, adverb
un·bumped, adjective
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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
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into "meet" is from 1880s; to bump off "kill" is 1908 in underworld slang.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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bump definition


  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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