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Bounce   /baʊns/   Listen
verb
Bounce  v. t.  
1.
To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
2.
To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
3.
To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. (Collog. U. S.)
4.
To bully; to scold. (Collog.)


Bounce  v. i.  (past & past part. bounced; pres. part. bouncing)  
1.
To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. "Another bounces as hard as he can knock." "Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart."
2.
To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. "Out bounced the mastiff." "Bounced off his arm+chair."
3.
To boast; to talk big; to bluster. (Obs.)


noun
Bounce  n.  
1.
A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
2.
A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. "The bounce burst open the door."
3.
An explosion, or the noise of one. (Obs.)
4.
Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
5.
(Zool.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).


adverb
Bounce  adv.  With a sudden leap; suddenly. "This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me."





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"Bounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... do it. The reason is plain. Those stones are rubber; therefore they are not stones. Those rocks around us are rubber, and therefore they are not rocks. Even this path is not a path; it's rubber. Unless we are very careful, your Majesty, we are all likely to get the bounce, just as your ...
— Tik-Tok of Oz • L. Frank Baum
... there one night. She wanted some cherry-bounce for Eliza Green, who had an awful pain, and after I'd knocked, I'd ...
— Mary Cary - "Frequently Martha" • Kate Langley Bosher
... returned Ferrers. "It all comes of having a colonel who understands nothing of the social life. There; now I'm ready, and I must get away on the bounce." ...
— Uncle Sam's Boys as Sergeants - or, Handling Their First Real Commands • H. Irving Hancock
... a pebble, aimed, and threw it at the roof of Mateo's cabin. The pebble landed true and rattled off, hitting the ground with a bounce and rolling away in the grass. The children, playing in the open as they always did, stopped and looked up inquiringly, then went on with their play. Mateo came cautiously from the back door and to him Johnny called, thankful that the observer ...
— The Thunder Bird • B. M. Bower
... a better reply, there is but one man upon all Barsoom who can bounce about like a rubber ball. By the mother of the further moon, John Carter, how came you here, and have you become a Darseen that you can ...
— A Princess of Mars • Edgar Rice Burroughs


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