[syn: bounce, jounce]
4. come back after being refused;
- Example: "the check bounced"
5. leap suddenly;
- Example: "He bounced to his feet"
6. refuse to accept and send back;
- Example: "bounce a check"
7. eject from the premises;
- Example: "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
bounce
n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn:
bounce, bounciness]
2: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn:
leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce]
3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn:
bounce, 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: bounce, 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: bounce, 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"
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (19 January 2023):
bounce
1. (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic
mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to
"bounce".
2. 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 PM to 7 PM 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; probably 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. Reported primarily among VMS users.
5. (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer
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]
(1994-11-29)
The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003):
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. 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.
3. 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.
4. [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.