Bounce \Bounce\, v. t.
1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump;
to thump. --Swift.
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2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
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3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge
unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]
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4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher.
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Bounce \Bounce\, n.
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1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
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2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
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The bounce burst open the door. --Dryden.
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3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.]
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4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious
exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De
Quincey.?
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5. (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus).
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Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n.
Bouncing.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce,
bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative
origin.]
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1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
noise; a knock loudly.
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Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift.
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Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
--Dryden.
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2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
as, she bounced into the room.
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Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift.
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Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray.
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3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
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Bounce \Bounce\, adv.
With a sudden leap; suddenly.
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This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
--Bickerstaff.
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bounce
n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: bounciness]
2: a light springing movement upwards or forwards [syn: leap,
leaping, spring, saltation, bound]
3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: bouncing]
v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
after they collide" [syn: resile, take a hop, spring,
bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet]
2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball"
3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: jounce]
4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant: clear]
5: leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet"
6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check"
7: eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce
people who want to enter this private club"
WordNet (r) 2.0
331 Moby Thesaurus words for "bounce":
AM signal, CRT spot, DM display, Doppler signal, FM signal,
Highland fling, IF signal, IM display, RF amplifier, RF echoes,
RF signal, RF stage, adaptability, airiness, and jump, animation,
ax, backfire, backlash, backlashing, beam, beat signal, blips,
bludgeon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bob, bobble,
boomerang, boot, boot out, bounce, bounce back, bounces,
bounciness, bound, bound back, brag, brave show, break, breeziness,
broad jump, browbeat, buck, buckjump, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag,
bump, buoyance, buoyancy, bust, can, cannon, cannon off, caper,
capriole, caracole, carefreeness, carom, cashier, cast, cast out,
cavort, chatter, chirpiness, chuck out, clear, contrecoup, cow,
curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, debonairness, defenestrate,
defrock, degrade, demivolt, demote, deplume, depose, deprive,
detrude, didder, direct signal, disbar, discard, discharge,
disemploy, dismiss, displace, display, displume, dither,
double-dot display, dragoon, drum out, dynamism, echo, echo signal,
eject, elasticity, energy, exclude, expel, extensibility, extrude,
falter, fire, flexibility, flounce, fly back, flying jump, frisk,
furlough, galliard, gambado, gambol, gasconade, gelandesprung,
get-up-and-go, give, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, go,
grand jete, grimace, handspring, have an ague, have repercussions,
heave out, hector, high jump, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, hustle,
intimidate, jactitate, jar, jauntiness, jerk, jete, jettison, jig,
jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump,
jump about, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off,
junk, kick, kick back, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs,
kickback, lash back, lavolta, lay off, leap, leap over, leapfrog,
let go, let out, levity, life, light heart, lightheartedness,
lightness, lightsomeness, liveliness, local oscillator signal,
long jump, lop, make redundant, morris, negotiate, obtrude, oust,
out-herod Herod, output signal, overjump, overleap, overskip,
peacockery, peacockishness, pension off, pep, perkiness, pertness,
picture, pips, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance,
put out, quake, quaver, quiver, radar signal,
radio-frequency amplifier, radio-frequency signal,
radio-frequency stage, rage, ramp, rant, rave, read out of,
reading, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil,
reflected signal, reflection, reject, release, remove, repercuss,
repercussion, replace, repulse, resile, resilience, resiliency,
responsiveness, retire, return, return signal, ricochet, rictus,
roister, rollick, romp, running broad jump, running high jump,
sack, saut de basque, separate forcibly, shake, shiver, shock,
shortwave signal, shudder, signal, signal display, ski jump, skip,
slang, snap, snap back, splutter, spot, spring, spring back,
springiness, sputter, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase,
storm, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strip, strut,
strutting, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swagger, swaggering,
swank, swash, swashbuckle, swashbucklering, swashbucklery,
swashbuckling, target image, terminate, throw away, throw out,
throw overboard, thrust out, tic, tone, tonicity, tonus, toss out,
tour jete, trace, transmitter signal, tremble, tremor, trip,
turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock,
unidirectional signal, updive, upleap, upspring, vapor, vault,
verve, vibrate, video signal, vitality, vivacity, wobble, yield,
zest, zip
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An
electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also bounce
message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C.
Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a
volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the
scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5
would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!",
followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor
outside the offices of known volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual
intercourse; prob. from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but
influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!"
from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually reboot
a system in order to clear up a transient problem (possibly editing a
configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at
boot time). Reported primarily among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS
programmers] _Automatic_ warm-start of a machine after an error. "I
logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the
night" 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
bounce
1. (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic
mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
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