Usually means: Traffic-calming raised road obstacle.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word speed bump:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. speed bump: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. speed bump: Merriam-Webster
  3. speed bump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. speed bump: The Word Spy
  5. speed bump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  6. speed bump: Collins English Dictionary
  7. speed bump: Vocabulary.com
  8. speed-bump: Wordnik
  9. speed bump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  10. speed bump: Wiktionary
  11. speed bump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. speed bump: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. speed bump: Dictionary.com
  14. Speed Bump, Speed bump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. speed bump: Rhymezone
  16. speed bump: FreeDictionary.org
  17. speed bump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. speed bump: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)

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

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SPEED BUMP: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See speed_bumping as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (speed bump)

noun:  A traffic calming measure, consisting of a transverse ridge in the road, to limit the speed of vehicles.
noun:  (figuratively) An obstacle or difficulty; roadblock; snag.
noun:  (finance, high-frequency trading) Any technical measure taken by an electronic financial exchange to deliberately delay orders by microseconds or milliseconds.

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