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▸ 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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