bounce
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: enpr: bouns
ipa: /baʊns/
ipa: /buːns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: bounces
Etymology: From Middle English bounsen, bunsen (“to beat, thump”), cognate with Scots bunce, bonce (“to bounce”). Of uncertain origin. Perhaps imitative, related to bump, or related to Middle English bonchen (“to pound, beat”) and Dutch bonken (“to bump”).
Compare Saterland Frisian bumzje (“to pound, bang, bounce”), West Frisian bûnzje (“to throb, bounce, pulsate”), Dutch bonzen (“to thump, knock, throb, bounce”), German Low German bunsen, bumsen (“to beat, bounce”), German bumsen (“to thud, bang, pound”).
Senses: examples: text: Krohn-Dehli took advantage of a lucky bounce 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.
ref: 2012 June 9, Owen Phillips, “Euro 2012: Netherlands 0-1 Denmark”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: rebound
glosses: A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
synonyms: word: bob
word: bobbing
word: bouncing
glosses: A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
glosses: An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
qualifier: quantum mechanics
glosses: A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
examples: text: Someone more clever than I said, "It's not the bounce that counts, it's the bounce back. "
ref: 2007, Annabelle Gurwitch, Fired!: Tales of the Canned, Canceled, Downsized, and Dismissed, page 243:
text: Customers said I was a hoot; management gave me the bounce.
ref: 2014, Lisa See, China Dolls:
text: 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—and I got the bounce.
ref: 2018, Harry Stephen Keeler, The Portrait of Jirjohn Cobb, page 241:
glosses: The sack, dismissal.
examples: text: I don't value her resentment the bounce of a cracker.
ref: 1773, Oliver Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer:
glosses: A bang, boom.
examples: text: A prologue of cherry bounce,—brandy,—preceded the entertainment, which was enlivened by hob-nobs and joyous toasts.
ref: 1870 May, “Irish Life”, in The Saint Pauls Magazine, volume VI, London: Strahan & Co., publishers, 56, Ludgate Hill, →OCLC, page 203:
text: He had one hand on the bounce 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.
ref: 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VI, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:
glosses: A drink based on brandy.ᵂ
examples: text: The bounce burst ope the door.
ref: 1685, John Dryden, The Despairing Lover:
glosses: A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
examples: text: And, in fact, the whole story is a bounce 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
ref: 1827, Thomas De Quincey, On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts:
glosses: Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
synonyms: houndfish
morgay
small-spotted catshark
glosses: Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
glosses: A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
synonyms: word: recreational drug
word: drug
word: dope
word: gear
word: horse
word: stuff
word: substance
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Drugs.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: Swagger.
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A good beat in music.
examples: text: Them pro-ballers got bounce!
synonyms: ups
mad ups
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: A talent for leaping.
topics: government
politics
glosses: An increase in popularity.
synonyms: no-stride
glosses: An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.
Derived terms: air bounce
antibounce
Boris bounce
bounce house
bounceless
bounce rate
bouncy
Brown bounce
dead-cat bounce
dead cat bounce
eye bounce
keybounce
key bounce
moonbounce
moon bounce
multibounce
on the bounce
postbounce
superbounce