bounce
    n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn:
         bounce, bounciness]
    2: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn:
       leap, leaping, spring, saltation, bound, bounce]
    3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn:
       bounce, bouncing]
    v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball
         bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite
         after they collide" [syn: bounce, resile, take a hop,
         spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate,
         ricochet]
    2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball"
    3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: bounce, jounce]
    4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant:
       clear]
    5: leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet"
    6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check"
    7: eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce
       people who want to enter this private club"

Bounce \Bounce\, v. t.
   1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump;
      to thump. --Swift.
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   2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
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   3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge
      unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.]
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   4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher.
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Bounce \Bounce\, n.
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   1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
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   2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
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            The bounce burst open the door.       --Dryden.
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   3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.]
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   4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious
      exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De
      Quincey.?
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   5. (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
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Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n.
   Bouncing.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce,
   bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative
   origin.]
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   1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
      noise; a knock loudly.
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            Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift.
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            Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
                                                  --Dryden.
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   2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
      as, she bounced into the room.
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            Out bounced the mastiff.              --Swift.
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            Bounced off his arm+chair.            --Thackeray.
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   3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
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Bounce \Bounce\, adv.
   With a sudden leap; suddenly.
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         This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
                                                  --Bickerstaff.
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bounce
 v.

    1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail
    message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the
    sender is said to bounce. See also bounce message.

    2. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.: 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.

    3. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem
    (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one that is
    only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among VMS and Unix
    users.

    4. [VM/CMS programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine 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.

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.

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