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Bounce   /baʊns/   Listen
Bounce

verb
(past & past part. bounced; pres. part. bouncing)
1.
Spring back; spring away from an impact.  Synonyms: bound, rebound, recoil, resile, reverberate, ricochet, spring, take a hop.  "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide"
2.
Hit something so that it bounces.
3.
Move up and down repeatedly.  Synonym: jounce.
4.
Come back after being refused.
5.
Leap suddenly.
6.
Refuse to accept and send back.
7.
Eject from the premises.
noun
1.
The quality of a substance that is able to rebound.  Synonym: bounciness.
2.
A light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards.  Synonyms: bound, leap, leaping, saltation, spring.
3.
Rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts).  Synonym: bouncing.



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"Bounce" Quotes from Famous Books



... she said brightly. "I got plenty of sleep while we were on the way. Why don't we go out tonight? They've got a bounce-dance place called ...
— A Spaceship Named McGuire • Gordon Randall Garrett
... "Well, it would take a steam crane to bounce you, anyway." He said. "I hadn't the faintest intention of doing any such thing. If I made you think so, I'm sorry. I simply wanted to ask if you have changed your mind, and if so why. I mean, whether I have given ...
— If Winter Comes • A.S.M. Hutchinson
... jump up and down so when the car bumps?" she wanted to know. "You and mother don't bounce the way Mun Bun and Margy and Rose and I do. ...
— Six Little Bunkers at Cowboy Jack's • Laura Lee Hope
... "in a rude pickle;" "virgo" is generally translated "the young lady;" "vir" is "a gentleman;" "senex" and "senior" are indifferently "the old blade," "the old fellow," or "the old gentleman;" while "summa arx" is "the very tip-top." "Misera" is "poor soul;" "exsilio" means "to bounce forth;" "pellex" is "a miss;" "lumina" are "the peepers;" "turbatum fugere" is "to scower off in a mighty bustle;" "confundor" is "to be jumbled;" and "squalidus" is "in a sorry pickle." "Importuna" is "a plaguy baggage;" "adulterium" is rendered "her pranks;" "ambages" becomes either "a long ...
— The Metamorphoses of Ovid - Literally Translated into English Prose, with Copious Notes - and Explanations • Publius Ovidius Naso
... his people are growing more impudent every day. It's bound to end in a blow-up. These imitation Scotch niggers in their plaid sarongs, as they call them, will be getting up a big quarrel with my men with their bounce and contempt for my well-drilled, smart detachment. Here's every common, twopenny-halfpenny Malay looking down upon my fellows, while there isn't one among my lads who isn't a better man than their Rajah. There will be a row some ...
— Trapped by Malays - A Tale of Bayonet and Kris • George Manville Fenn


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