 bump |
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| 1. | [ verb ] knock against with force or violence | |
| Synonyms: | knock | |
| Examples: | "My car bumped into the tree" |
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| Related terms: | hit buffet run_into run_into bumper | |
| 2. | [ verb ] (dance) dance erotically, as in "bump and grind": dance with the pelvis thrust forward | |
| Related terms: | dance | |
| 3. | [ verb ] come upon, as if by accident; meet with | |
| Synonyms: | find encounter hit chance happen | |
| Examples: | "We find this idea in Plato" "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here" "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day" |
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| Related terms: | discovery meeting | |
| 4. | [ verb ] assign to a lower position; reduce in rank | |
| Synonyms: | relegate demote kick_downstairs break | |
| Examples: | "She was demoted because she always speaks up" "He was broken down to Sargeant" |
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| Related terms: | promote delegate reduce murder relegation | |
| 5. | [ verb ] remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied | |
| Synonyms: | displace dislodge | |
| Examples: | "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space" |
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| Related terms: | expel throw dislodgment | |
| 6. | [ noun ] something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form | |
| Synonyms: | bulge protuberance protrusion jut gibbousness prominence gibbosity extrusion excrescence hump | |
| Related terms: | projection spur wart nub occipital_protuberance frontal_eminence belly mogul caput snag bulge protrude hunch bulge | |
| 7. | [ noun ] (medicine) a lump on the body caused by a blow | |
| Related terms: | injury | |
| 8. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 6982 | |
| 9. | [ noun ] an impact (as from a collision) | |
| Synonyms: | blow | |
| Examples: | "the bump threw him off the bicycle" |
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| Related terms: | impact rap knock jolt pounding shock slap | |
| Similar spelling: |
bumpy bumph bumf |
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