# bouncer
## English
### Etymology

From bounce +‎ -er.

### Pronunciation

* (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈbaʊn.sə/
* (General American) enPR: bounʹ-sər, IPA: /ˈboʊn.sɚ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aʊnsə(ɹ)
* Hyphenation: boun‧cer

### Noun

bouncer (plural bouncers)
* (informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
    Synonyms: doorman, chucker-out
** 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]
* (cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
    Synonym: bumper
** 1998, Kamila Shamsie, In the City by the Sea, Bloomsbury (2004), page 165:‘You try to hit the bouncer that you should duck under. Your bat misses it completely. The ball strikes your temple, whack!’
* (Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
    Synonym: BNC
* (dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
** 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 190:"Why, I'll tell you, Mr. Simple; he's a good tempered, kind fellow enough, but—" / "But what?" / "Such a bouncer!!" / "How do you mean? He's not a very stout man." / "Bless you, Mr. Simple, why don't you understand English. I mean that he's the greatest liar that ever walked a deck. […]"
* (slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
* Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
    Synonym: whopper
** 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Modern Greece”, in Blackwood's Magazine:The stone must be a bouncer.
* (slang, archaic) A bold lie.
    Synonym: whopper
** 1877, W. S. Gilbert, “Engaged”, in Original Plays, Second Series, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 83:"… when he wants to accomplish his purpose, he does not hesitate to invent—I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is “bouncers.”
* (slang, archaic) A liar.
** 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 190:"Why, I'll tell you, Mr. Simple; he's a good tempered, kind fellow enough, but—" / "But what?" / "Such a bouncer!!" / "How do you mean? He's not a very stout man." / "Bless you, Mr. Simple, why don't you understand English. I mean that he's the greatest liar that ever walked a deck. […]"
* A bouncy castle.
* A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
** 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 82–83:He shook his head and took up the child—Dilly kicked out her feet in tiny electric jolts to the full stretch of the Babygro. […] He put the child in the bouncer again.
* (UK, slang, obsolete) Short for shop-bouncer.
** 1832, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country (volume 6, page 478)
    Noting a shop where goods are piled on the counter, or within reach, a man goes in called a bouncer, and generally asks to look at some handkerchiefs, selecting a time when there is only one shopman in the way, breakfast-time for instance; whilst this is going on, a well-dressed youth comes in with a blue bag in his hand, asking for shoe-ties, or some trifling article. Now the work begins; […]

#### Derived terms

* baby bouncer
* bouncerly
* shop-bouncer