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FromMiddle Englishbounsen,bunsen(to beat, thump), cognate withScotsbunce,bonce(to bounce). Of uncertain origin. Perhapsimitative, related tobump, or related toMiddle Englishbonchen(to pound, beat) andDutchbonken(to bump).

CompareSaterland Frisianbumzje(to pound, bang, bounce),West Frisianbûnzje(to throb, bounce, pulsate),Dutchbonzen(to thump, knock, throb, bounce),German Low Germanbunsen,bumsen(to beat, bounce),Germanbumsen(to thud, bang, pound).

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Verb

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bounce (third-person singular simple presentbounces,present participlebouncing,simple past and past participlebounced)

  1. (intransitive) To change thedirection ofmotion after hitting anobstacle.
    Synonyms:bounce back,rebound
    The tennis ballbounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
  2. (intransitive) To movequicklyup and thendown (orvice versa),once orrepeatedly.
    Synonym:bob
    Hebounces nervously on his chair.
    • 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, inBBC Sport[1]:
      The Black Cats contributed to their own downfall for the only goal when Titus Bramble, making his first appearance since Boxing Day, and Michael Turner, let Phil Jones' crossbounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
  3. (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
    Hebounced the child on his knee.
    The children werebouncing a ball against a wall.
  4. (transitive, colloquial) Tosuggest orintroduce (anidea, etc.) to (off orby) someone, in order to gainfeedback.
    I'm meeting Bob later tobounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
  5. (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
    Shebounced happily into the room.
  6. To moverapidly (between).
    • 2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, inThe Onion AV Club[2]:
      “The Queen’s Justice” had some fantastic moments of wit and heart but the structure and pacing didn’t do it any favors. The first section of the episode mostlybounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.
  7. (intransitive, informal, of acheque/check) To berefused by a bank because it isdrawn oninsufficientfunds.
    We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last onebounced.
  8. (transitive, informal) To fail tocover(have sufficient funds for) (adraftpresented against one's account).
    He tends tobounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
  9. (intransitive, slang) Toleave.
    Let’s wrap this up, I gottabounce.
    • 2006, Noire[pseudonym],Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.:One World,Ballantine Books,→ISBN,page64:
      I was definitely looking forward to getting me some more of Yasmere in the future, so I took a quick second to give her a last little bit of love before Ibounced.
    • 2023,Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed byRaine Allen-Miller,Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
      All right, look, don't prang out. They had this paint-party-brunch thing. But I only stayed for 45 minutes, painted a tiny bit of a door, ate half an almond croissant andbounced.
  10. (US, slang, dated) Toejectviolently, as from a room; todischargeunceremoniously, as from employment.
    • 1946,Yachting, volume80, page46:
      Nobody took umbrage andbounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
    • 1977 December 17, Tom Hurley, “The Evolution of Sporters”, inGay Community News, volume 5, number24, page12:
      Anyone who getsbounced out of [this bar] is not just pushed onto the street — he is walked home, or put in a cab.
  11. (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed bywith) To havesexual intercourse.
    Synonyms:bang,do it,have sex;see alsoThesaurus:copulate
  12. (transitive, air combat) Toattackunexpectedly.
    The squadron wasbounced north of the town.
  13. (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; toreset.
    See if it helps tobounce the router.
  14. (ambitransitive, Internet, of ane-mail message) To returnundelivered.
    What’s your new email address? The old onebounces.
    The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address wasbounced back by the server.
  15. (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
    The student pilotbounced several times during his landing.
  16. (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
    After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and hebounced.
  17. (transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
    Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
  18. (slang, archaic) Tobully; toscold.
  19. (slang, archaic) Toboast; tobluster.
  20. (archaic) Tostrike orthump, so as torebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
  21. (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
  22. (music, technology) Torender multipletracks tocomputerstorage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with the addition of further material.

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Translations

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to change direction of motion after hitting an obstacle
to move quickly up and down
of a cheque/check: to be refused
to fail to cover (a draft)
to cause to move quickly up and down
slang: to leave
to suggest or introduce in order to gain feedback

Noun

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bounce (countable anduncountable,pluralbounces)

  1. A change ofdirection ofmotion after hitting theground or anobstacle.
    Synonym:rebound
    • 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, inBBC Sport:
      Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a luckybounce of the ball after a battling run on the left flank by Simon Poulsen, dummied two defenders and shot low through goalkeeper Maarten Stekelenburg's legs after 24 minutes.
  2. Amovementup and thendown (orvice versa),once orrepeatedly.
    Synonyms:bob,(repeated)bobbing,(repeated)bouncing
  3. (Internet) Anemail that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
  4. (quantum mechanics) Ahypotheticalevent where acollapsingsystem, such as a universe in theBig Bouncetheory, reaches a point ofextremedensity and thenrebounds back into anexpandingphase,essentiallyreversing thecontractiondue toquantummechanicaleffects.
  5. (slang) The sack,dismissal.
    • 2007, Annabelle Gurwitch,Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed, page243:
      Someone more clever than I said, "It's not thebounce that counts, it's the bounce back. "
    • 2014, Lisa See,China Dolls:
      Customers said I was a hoot; management gave me thebounce.
    • 2018, Harry Stephen Keeler,The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb, page241:
      I was no longer with the Oakhaven Hospital when I decided to come out here to the island; they'd fired me when they traced a long-distance call I'd made to San Francisco, under the director's name, to a man the papers had said got pinched out there, under suspicion of having lifted a poke with 10 grand in it—but later released—a man named Andy Glover. I thought sure he was a certain lug who'd been in stir with me, and thought to make a touch—however, skip it!—the point is that it was the wrong Andy Glover!—the call got traced to the phone in the hospital urinal room—andI got thebounce.
  6. (archaic) Abang, boom.
  7. (archaic) A drink based onbrandy.W
    • 1870 May, “Irish Life”, inThe Saint Pauls Magazine, volume VI, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56,Ludgate Hill,→OCLC,page203:
      A prologue of cherrybounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
    • 1913,Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, inMr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y., London:D[aniel] Appleton and Company,→OCLC:
      He had one hand on thebounce bottle—and he'd never let go of that since he got back to the table—but he had a handkerchief in the other and was swabbing his deadlights with it.
  8. (archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
    • 1685, John Dryden,The Despairing Lover:
      Thebounce burstope the door.
  9. (archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
    • 1827,Thomas De Quincey,On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts:
      And, in fact, the whole story is abounce of his own. For, in a most abusive letter which he wrote “to a learned person,” (meaning Wallis the mathematician,) he gives quite another account of the matter
  10. Scyliorhinus canicula, aEuropeandogfish.
    Synonyms:houndfish,morgay,small-spotted catshark
  11. (uncountable) Agenre ofhip-hopmusic ofNew Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
  12. (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable)Drugs.
    Synonyms:seeThesaurus:recreational drug
  13. (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable)Swagger.
  14. (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A goodbeat in music.
  15. (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Atalent forleaping.
    Synonyms:ups,mad ups
    Them pro-ballers gotbounce!
  16. (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
  17. Anobstacle for ahorse to jump over, consisting of twofences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
    Synonym:no-stride
  18. (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.

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Translations

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change of direction of motion after hitting an obstacle
movement up and down
sack, dismissal
email
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