Usually means: Rebound after hitting a surface.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bounce: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bounce: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bounce: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bounce, the bounce: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bounce: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bounce, bounce: Wordnik
  7. bounce: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bounce: Wiktionary
  9. bounce: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bounce: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bounce: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bounce: Dictionary.com
  13. bounce: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bounce: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bounce (Aaron Carter Song), Bounce (Australian TV series), Bounce (Bon Jovi album), Bounce (Bon Jovi song), Bounce (Calvin Harris song), Bounce (Iggy Azalea song), Bounce (NCIS), Bounce (Samantha Jade song), Bounce (Sarah Connor Song), Bounce (Sarah Connor song), Bounce (Tarkan song), Bounce (Terence Blanchard album), Bounce (Timbaland song), Bounce (banking), Bounce (film), Bounce (golf), Bounce (musical), Bounce (video game), Bounce (video game series), Bounce: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bounce: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bounce: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bounce: Rhymezone
  19. bounce: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bounce: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bounce: Free Dictionary
  22. bounce: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. bounce: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. bounce: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)
  2. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. bounce: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  4. Bounce: Bloomberg Financial Glossary
  5. bounce: Legal dictionary
  6. Bounce: Financial dictionary
  7. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. bounce: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. bounce: Netlingo
  3. bounce: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  4. Glossary of Internet Terms (No longer online)
  5. Bounce: Tech Terms Computer Dictionary
  6. bounce: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bounce: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce, bounce: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  3. B.O.U.N.C.E: Urban Dictionary

Sports (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bounce: Skydiving Glossary
  2. Horse Racing Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (intransitive) To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
verb:  (intransitive) To move quickly up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
verb:  (transitive) To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.
verb:  (transitive, colloquial) To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) someone, in order to gain feedback.
verb:  (intransitive) To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
verb:  To move rapidly (between).
verb:  (intransitive, informal, of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
verb:  (intransitive, slang) To leave.
verb:  (US, slang, dated) To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
verb:  (intransitive, slang, African-American Vernacular, sometimes followed by with) To have sexual intercourse.
verb:  (transitive, air combat) To attack unexpectedly.
verb:  (intransitive, electronics) To turn power off and back on; to reset.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive, Internet, of an e-mail message) To return undelivered.
verb:  (intransitive, aviation) To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
verb:  (intransitive, skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.
verb:  (transitive, sound recording) To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To bully; to scold.
verb:  (slang, archaic) To boast; to bluster.
verb:  (archaic) To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.
verb:  (horse racing, slang) To race poorly after a successful race.
verb:  (music, technology) To render multiple tracks to computer storage so that they can be played back and re-recorded with the addition of further material.
noun:  A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
noun:  A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
noun:  (Internet) An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure.
noun:  (quantum mechanics) A hypothetical event where a collapsing system, such as a universe in the Big Bounce theory, reaches a point of extreme density and then rebounds back into an expanding phase, essentially reversing the contraction due to quantum mechanical effects.
noun:  (slang) The sack, dismissal.
noun:  (archaic) A bang, boom.
noun:  (archaic) A drink based on brandy.ᵂ
noun:  (archaic) A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
noun:  (archaic) Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
noun:  Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish.
noun:  (uncountable) A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Drugs.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) Swagger.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A good beat in music.
noun:  (slang, African-American Vernacular, uncountable) A talent for leaping.
noun:  (politics, informal) An increase in popularity.
noun:  An obstacle for a horse to jump over, consisting of two fences close together so that the horse cannot take a full stride between them, nor jump both at once.
noun:  (horse racing, slang) The situation where a horse races poorly after a successful race.

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