meaning of bounce
1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
4. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
5. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
6. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
7. To bully; to scold.
8. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
9. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
10. An explosion, or the noise of one.
11. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
12. A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
13. With a sudden leap; suddenly.
14. 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 Roos 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]
15. a light springing movement upwards or forwards
Related Words
bounce | bounce back | bounce message | bounce out | bounced | bouncer |
