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bump

Definition

  • noun: a relatively abrupt convexity or protuberance on a surface
  • verb: to hit (something, such as part of your body) against an object in a sudden and forceful way
  • verb: to strike or knock with force or violence
  • often used figuratively in U.S. English
  • synonyms: thump, protuberance, boom

Examples

  • The flight was overbooked, and I was the first to 'be bumped'. [=my seat on the flight was the first seat to be given to someone else]

  • His career hit a 'bump' in the road. = His career hit a road 'bump'. [=something happened that slowed the progress of his career]

  • The airplane landed 'with a bump'. [=the airplane went up again and then down when it hit the ground]

Movie quotes

  • (..) and l tried to stop them. The boat was too fast, so we swam out in the ocean... He couldn't stop them. Then Nemo's dad, he swims out to the ocean and they bump into three sharks. He scares them away by blowing them up. - Amazing. - And then dives thousands of feet... Down into the dark. lt's wicked (..)
    2003 Finding Nemo