bounce
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: enpr: bouns
ipa: /baʊns/
ipa: /buːns/
rhymes: -aʊns
Forms: form: bounces
form: bouncing
form: bounced
form: bounced
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: The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.
synonyms: bounce back
rebound
glosses: To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
examples: text: He bounces nervously on his chair.
text: 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' cross bounce across the six-yard box as Rooney tucked in at the back post.
ref: 2012 May 13, Alistair Magowan, “Sunderland 0-1 Man Utd”, in BBC Sport:
synonyms: bob
glosses: To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
examples: text: He bounced the child on his knee.
text: The children were bouncing a ball against a wall.
glosses: To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
examples: text: I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.
glosses: To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
examples: text: She bounced happily into the room.
text: Out bounced the mastiff.
ref: 1731, On Mr. Pulteney's Being Put Out of the Council, Jonathan Swift:
glosses: To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
examples: text: “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 mostly bounced between Jon Snow’s arrival at Dragonstone and Cersei Lannister burning through her enemies and giving nary a fuck.
ref: 2017 July 30, Ali Barthwell, “Ice and fire finally meet in a front-loaded episode of Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:
glosses: To move rapidly (between).
examples: text: We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.
glosses: To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
raw_tags: of a cheque/check
examples: text: He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.
glosses: To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a cheque/check drawn on one's account).
examples: text: Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.
text: 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 I bounced.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 64:
text: 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 and bounced.
ref: 2023, Nathan Bryon, Tom Melia, directed by Raine Allen-Miller, Rye Lane, spoken by Nathan (Simon Manyonda):
glosses: To leave.
examples: text: Nobody took umbrage and bounced me out of the Union for being a pro.
ref: 1946, Yachting, volume 80, page 46:
text: Anyone who gets bounced out of [this bar] is not just pushed onto the street — he is walked home, or put in a cab.
ref: 1977 December 17, Tom Hurley, “The Evolution of Sporters”, in Gay Community News, volume 5, number 24, page 12:
glosses: To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
synonyms: word: bang
word: do it
word: have sex
word: approach
word: cohabit
word: company
word: copulate
word: couple
word: engage in sex
word: exchange flesh
word: have intimate relations
word: have marital relations
word: have sex
word: have sexual relations
word: intercourse
word: know
word: know someone in the biblical sense
word: make love
word: mate
word: share a bed
word: sleep together
word: strain
word: bang
word: bauf
word: beat
word: bone
word: boff
word: boink
word: bonk
word: bop
word: bounce
word: breed
word: bump nasties
word: bump uglies
word: catch a dick
word: dance
word: discuss Uganda
word: dip one's pen in someone's inkwell
word: do it
word: do the deed
word: do the nasty
word: eff
word: engender
word: expletive deleted
word: feck
word: frack
word: frak
word: frick
word: frig
word: fuck
word: get busy
word: get down
word: get freaky
word: get it
word: get it on
word: get jiggy
word: get laid
word: get lucky
word: get one's dick wet
word: get one's end away
word: get one's freak on
word: get one's groove on
word: get one's leg over
word: get one's oats
word: get physical
word: get some
word: get the dirty water off one's chest
word: graft the forked tree
word: go all the way
word: haul one's ashes
word: have it away
word: have it off
word: hide the salami
word: hide the sausage
word: hide the wienie
word: hike the Appalachian Trail
word: hook up
word: hump
word: jig-jig
word: knock boots
word: lay pipe
word: lay the pipe
word: make it
word: make out
word: make the beast with two backs
word: make whoopee
word: meddle
word: ming
word: Netflix and chill
word: penetrate
word: pipe
word: pipe down
word: play
word: play hide the sausage
word: pound
word: rail
word: ride
word: rock and roll
word: roger
word: roll around
word: root
word: screw
word: see someone's etchings
word: sex
word: shag
word: shelve
word: show someone one's etchings
word: slap bellies
word: stick
word: tumble
qualifier: African-American Vernacular
glosses: To have sexual intercourse.
raw_tags: followed by with
examples: text: The squadron was bounced north of the town.
qualifier: air combat
glosses: To attack unexpectedly.
examples: text: See if it helps to bounce the router.
topics: business
computing
electrical-engineering
electricity
electromagnetism
electronics
energy
engineering
mathematics
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
physics
sciences
glosses: To turn power to (a device) off and back on; to reset; to reboot.
examples: text: What’s your new email address? The old one bounces.
text: The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address was bounced back by the server.
glosses: To return undelivered.
raw_tags: of an e-mail message
examples: text: The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.
topics: aeronautics
aerospace
aviation
business
engineering
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
glosses: To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
examples: text: After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced.
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
skydiving
sports
glosses: To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
examples: text: Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.
topics: entertainment
lifestyle
music
qualifier: sound recording
glosses: To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
examples: text: bouncing stems
topics: engineering
entertainment
lifestyle
music
natural-sciences
physical-sciences
technology
glosses: To render two or more tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with further material added.
examples: text: Would I had him here again, I would so bounce him , I would so thank his lordship for his lewd plot.
ref: 1621 (first performance), John Fletcher, “The Wild-Goose Chase; a Comedy”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1679, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):
glosses: To bully; to scold.
glosses: To boast; to bluster.
examples: text: Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
ref: 1708, Squire Bickerstaff Detected, John Partridge:
glosses: To strike or thump, so as to make a sudden noise upon rebound; to knock loudly.
topics: hobbies
horse-racing
horseracing
horses
lifestyle
pets
racing
sports
glosses: To race poorly after a successful race.
Derived terms: bounceable
bounce around
bounceback
bounce back
bounced cheque
bouncedown
bounce in
bounce into
bounce off
bounce off the walls
bounce on it
bouncer
bounce rubble
bounce the rubble
bounce to the ounce
bouncing
bouncing Bet
bouncing castle
debounce
jounce
pec bounce
rebounce