Usually means: Increase slightly, enhance or promote.
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General (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. bump up: Merriam-Webster
  2. bump up: Collins English Dictionary
  3. bump up: Vocabulary.com
  4. bump-up: Wordnik
  5. bump up: Wiktionary
  6. bump up: Dictionary.com
  7. bump up: Rhymezone
  8. bump up: FreeDictionary.org
  9. bump up: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. bump up: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. bump up: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bump up: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bump up: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bump up: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bump up: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bump up: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
  2. bump up: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (bump up)

verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To increase something suddenly.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.
verb:  (transitive, idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To bump into something; to collide with something.
verb:  (intransitive, idiomatic) To figuratively collide with something; to come into conflict over something.

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