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Bump into   /bəmp ɪntˈu/   Listen
Bump into

verb
1.
Collide violently with an obstacle.  Synonyms: butt against, jar against, knock against, run into.






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"Bump into" Quotes from Famous Books



... me to give you my blessin'. I'll come through with a fine big large one. Go to it, constable. Hogtie West with proof. Soak him good. Send him up for 'steen years. You got my sympathy an' approval, one for the grief you're liable to bump into, the other for ...
— Man Size • William MacLeod Raine

... time I walked down the streets of this great city at night I had the same feeling that I had on the Atlantic. I was sailing without lights, on an unknown course, and I felt every minute that I would bump into some unseen human craft, as indeed I did, both a feminine craft and a male craft. I also had the feeling that in this particular city, in the darkness I might be submarined by a city human U-boat, which would slip up behind ...
— Soldier Silhouettes on our Front • William L. Stidger

... spat with violence and accuracy. "You wait till you bump into Shorty Bill. Rude! ...
— No Man's Land • H. C. McNeile

... the tug boat and the steamer were talking like this? It is because they were afraid they might bump into some other ship in the fog for they can't see in the fog. You know how white and thick ...
— Here and Now Story Book - Two- to seven-year-olds • Lucy Sprague Mitchell

... of to the right. The first time I rode in a hansom (you weren't there that day, Betty) and we suddenly turned a corner, keeping close to the left curb, I poked open the little door in the roof and shouted, 'Hey there! Mister! You'll bump into something if you don't look out!' The driver just stared; he didn't seem to know what I was ...
— John and Betty's History Visit • Margaret Williamson



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