bump
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
ipa: /bʌmp/
ipa: [bʌm̥p]
ipa: [bɐm̥p]
rhymes: -ʌmp
Forms: form: bumps
Etymology: From Early Modern English bump (“a shock, blow from a collision”), probably of North Germanic origin; compare Danish bump (“a thump”), Danish bumpe (“to thump”), Old Danish bumpe (“to strike with a clenched fist”), all probably of imitative origin.
Apparently related to Middle English bumben, bummen (“to make a hollow noise”), Dutch bommen (“to hum, buzz”), German Low German bumsen (“to bump, push”), German bummen (“to hum, buzz”), Icelandic bumba (“drum”). More at bum, bumble. Compare also bomb.
Senses: examples: text: His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.
glosses: A light blow or jolting collision.
examples: text: He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.
glosses: The sound of such a collision.
glosses: A protuberance on a level surface.
examples: text: It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.
ref: c. 1591–1595 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
glosses: A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
examples: text: the bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness
text: Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.
ref: c.1845 Thomas MacNevin, cited in Charles Gavan Duffy (1896) Young Ireland: A Fragment of Irish History, 1840-45; final revision (London: T.F. Unwin) Vol.II p.100
text: Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.
ref: 1902, William Blades, The Enemies of Books, 2nd edition, page 102:
glosses: One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymic) the faculty itself
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
rowing
sports
glosses: The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
synonyms: baby bump
glosses: The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
glosses: A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
examples: text: US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
glosses: A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
examples: text: “They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”
ref: 2019 August 9, Joshua Azizi, “Shambhala Music Festival makes harm reduction a priority”, in The Georgia Straight:
glosses: A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
examples: text: We sing [...] "God Save the Queen" done in mime and finally "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" to a Hawaiian rock with Phoebe doing the bump.
ref: 1979, Robert English, Toxic Kisses, Eden Paperbacks, page 32:
qualifier: preceded by definite article
glosses: A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
glosses: In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
glosses: A coarse cotton fabric.
glosses: A training match for a fighting dog.
topics: ball-games
games
hobbies
lifestyle
snooker
sports
glosses: The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
examples: text: Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.
ref: 2005, “Stay Fly”, in Jordan Houston, Darnell Carlton, Paul Beauregard, Premro Smith, Marlon Goodwin, David Brown, Willie Hutchinson (lyrics), Most Known Unknown, performed by Three 6 Mafia (featuring Young Buck, 8 Ball, and MJG), Sony BMG:
glosses: Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
topics: broadcasting
media
glosses: A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
examples: text: For example, chain bumping, in which a bump by one employee initiates a series of consecutive bumps down a progression line before a layoff results, produces the greatest average number of reassignments per redundant employee.
ref: 1985, Peter B. Doeringer, Michael J. Piore, Internal Labor Markets and Manpower Analysis, page 55:
qualifier: industrial relations
glosses: A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
topics: card-games
games
glosses: In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
examples: text: "I'll try my best, but we still have a few bumps to work out," Ryder muttered.
ref: 2015, Dianna Love, Slye Team Black Ops 3-book box set:
glosses: A minor problem or difficulty.
topics: business
mining
glosses: A sudden movement of underground strata, preceded by a characteristic sound.
Derived terms: sense: Terms derived from bump (noun)
word: baby bump
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word: bebump
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word: birthday bump
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word: booty bump
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word: bumpage
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word: bump allocation
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word: bump allocator
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word: bump and grind
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word: bump ball
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word: bump cap
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word: bumpfire
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word: bump-fire
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word: bump fire
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word: bump-in
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word: bump in the road
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word: Bumpit
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word: bumpity
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word: bumpless
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word: bumplike
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word: bump mapping
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word: bump-off
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word: bumpoff
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word: bumpology
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word: bumpometer
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word: bump-out
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word: bump-start
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word: bump stock
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word: bump-stock
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word: bumpstock
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word: bump supper
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word: bumpy
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word: chest bump
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word: Colbert bump
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word: convention bump
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word: elbow bump
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word: fist bump
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word: fistbump
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word: ghost bump
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word: goose bump
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word: headbump
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word: Jersey bump
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word: key bump
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word: lie bump
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word: like a bump on a log
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word: microbump
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word: mobile speed bump
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word: multibump
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word: necro-bump
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word: necro bump
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word: power bump
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word: prayer bump
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word: razor bump
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word: shaving bump
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word: solder bump
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word: speed bump
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word: things that go bump in the night
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word: traffic bump
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word: Trump bump
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word: with a bump