ALL meanings of bounce
bounce
B b - noun bounce a sudden spring or leap: In one bounce he was at the door. 1
- noun bounce ability to rebound; resilience: This tennis ball has no more bounce. 1
- noun bounce vitality; energy; liveliness: There is bounce in his step. This soda water has more bounce to it. 1
- noun bounce the fluctuation in magnitude of target echoes on a radarscope. 1
- noun bounce Slang. a dismissal, rejection, or expulsion: He's gotten the bounce from three different jobs. 1
- adverb bounce with a bounce; suddenly. 1
- noun Technical meaning of 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 Roo's 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. 1
- intransitive verb bounce ball: rebound 1
- transitive verb bounce ball: cause to rebound 1
- intransitive verb bounce jump up and down 1
- intransitive verb bounce cause to rebound off sth 1
- intransitive verb bounce cheque: be rejected by bank 1
- intransitivephrasal verb bounce rebound 1
- noun bounce springing movement 1
- noun bounce ability to rebound 1
- noun bounce vigor 1
- noun bounce impertinent 1
- transitive verb bounce evict 1
- transitive verb bounce return: a cheque 1
- intransitive verb bounce idea: test 1
- noun bounce A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle. 0
- noun bounce A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly. 0
- noun bounce An email return with any error. 0
- noun bounce The sack, licensing. 0
- noun bounce A bang, boom. 0
- noun bounce A drink based on brandyW. 0
- noun bounce A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. 0
- noun bounce Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. 0
- noun bounce Scyllium catulus, a European dogfish. 0
- noun bounce A genre of New Orleans music. 0
- noun bounce (Slang) (African American Vernacular) Drugs. 0
- noun bounce (Slang) (African American Vernacular) Swagger. 0
- noun bounce (Slang) (African American Vernacular) A 'good' beat. 0
- noun bounce (Slang) (African American Vernacular) A talent for leaping. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly. 0
- verb bounce (Transitive Verb) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly. 0
- verb bounce (Transitive Verb) COL To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) INF (of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds. 0
- verb bounce (Transitive Verb) INF To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account). 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) SLA To leave. 0
- verb bounce (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) SLA (African American Vernacular) (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse. 0
- verb bounce (Transitive Verb) (air combat) To attack unexpectedly. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) (electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) (Internet, of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) (aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum. 0
- verb bounce (Intransitive Verb) (skydiving) To land hard on unsurvivable velocity with fatal results. 0
- verb bounce (Slang) (dated) To bully; to scold. 0