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Bump   /bəmp/   Listen
Bump

noun
1.
A lump on the body caused by a blow.
2.
Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings.  Synonyms: bulge, excrescence, extrusion, gibbosity, gibbousness, hump, jut, prominence, protrusion, protuberance, swelling.  "The hump of a camel" , "He stood on the rocky prominence" , "The occipital protuberance was well developed" , "The bony excrescence between its horns"
3.
An impact (as from a collision).  Synonym: blow.
verb
(past & past part. bumped; pres. part. bumping)
1.
Knock against with force or violence.  Synonym: knock.
2.
Come upon, as if by accident; meet with.  Synonyms: chance, encounter, find, happen.  "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" , "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
3.
Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward.
4.
Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank.  Synonyms: break, demote, kick downstairs, relegate.  "He was broken down to Sergeant"
5.
Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied.  Synonym: dislodge.



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"Bump" Quotes from Famous Books



... music, bags and all. His gang of fifteen, naked to the waist, stood in line, with huge wooden beetles called commanders, and lifted them high and brought them down on the nitre in cadence with true nautical power and unison, singing as follows, with a ponderous bump on the first note in ...
— Hard Cash • Charles Reade
... black he can't be seen in de dark at all 'cept by de whites ob he eyes. So whin he go outen de house at night, he ain't dast shut he eyes, 'ca'se den ain't nobody can see him in de least. He jest as invidsible as nuffin'! An' who know but whut a great, big ghost bump right into him 'ca'se it can't see him? An' dat shore w'u'd scare dat li'l black boy powerful bad, 'ca'se yever'body knows whut a cold, damp pussonality a ...
— The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories • Various
... click of the gate made her look out. "Here comes Mack," she said. "Your shoes are wrapped in a newspaper, and he's so busy reading something on it that he doesn't know where he is going. Look out, snail!" she called; "you'll bump into the house in a minute if you ...
— Flip's "Islands of Providence" • Annie Fellows Johnston
... to get some anarchy to put on my forehead," said Hiram. "See that big bump, Mandy, ...
— Quincy Adams Sawyer and Mason's Corner Folks - A Picture of New England Home Life • Charles Felton Pidgin
... love to see you worked up,' she said. 'The bump with which you always come down as soon as you realize that you are up in the air at all is quite delightful. Oh, we're actually both laughing. What a triumphant end to our explanations, after all my dread of the time ...
— Trent's Last Case - The Woman in Black • E.C. (Edmund Clerihew) Bentley


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