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bounce English

Meaning bounce meaning

What does bounce mean?
Definitions in simple English

bounce Verb

— To bounce is to change the direction of motion after hitting an object. The tennis ball bounced off the wall. — To bounce is to make something move quickly up and down, or down and up. He bounced the child on his knee. — To bounce a check, is to be refused by a bank.

bounce Noun

— A bounce is a change of direction of motion, often after hitting an object. The poor bird made a big bounce off my car when we hit each other. — A bounce can also mean movement that is up and down, up and down (repeated).

bounce

— verb (= resile, spring) spring back; spring away from an impact The rubber ball bounced These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide — verb hit something so that it bounces bounce a ball — verb move up and down repeatedly — noun the quality of a substance that is able to rebound — verb leap suddenly He bounced to his feet — verb come back after being refused the check bounced — noun (= leap) a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards — noun rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) — verb refuse to accept and send back bounce a check — verb eject from the premises The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club

Synonyms bounce synonyms

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bounce English » English

rebound spring bound leap jump ricochet hop recoil skip jounce reverberate resile vibrate vault saltation pounce oscillate jolt jitter jerk gambol bouncing wobble tremor take a hop swing sway shake roll rock resiliency rattle prance leaping jig jarring jar frisk flutter deflect dap cannon bump bounciness bounce back bob whoosh whipping waggle vibratory movement

Topics bounce topics

What do people use bounce to talk about?
Physical actions Move Manner of movement Walk

Jump
Physical actions Physical impact

Hit
Person Sense, perceive See

Reflect, mirror

Conjugation bounce conjugation

How do you conjugate bounce?

bounce · verb

Examples bounce examples

How do I use bounce in a sentence?

Simple sentences

Let's bounce.
I do not like the habit certain tennis players have when they bounce the ball excessively before serving, especially on important points. Bouncing the ball more than, say, 10 times should be penalised for deliberately delaying the play.

Movie subtitles

Bounce. Good boy!
Always a bounce in her step.
They thought they hit the target, boss, but bullets just bounce off of you.
I used to bounce her on my knee.
There's the first bounce, the second, and..
I've never given in a fraction to anyone before. and here I am letting you bounce me up and bounce me down.
Will you go over there and bounce yourself?
Ground's hard when you bounce a plane off of it.
I wanna bounce my kid on my knee.
After one bounce I was a submarine.
Bounce, please, ladies.
We've been trying for months to find a rule by which we can fix the height of each bounce.
If the bomb is released too soon, it won't reach the dam, if it's released too late, it'll bounce over it and explode directly under the aircraft killing everyone. But now, we've got it!
I'm gonna bounce in that castle until I puke!
But they do bounce in castles.
Never wore a brassiere; Always a bounce in her step.
Harder! It won't bounce back like a bad check!
Throw everything we've got, hard enough to bounce.
I'll make it bounce, all right.
When you talk like that, I could bounce a rock off n your bean.
Then they'd bounce off. - Not a bad idea.
We'll bounce back so hard.
I want to bounce my kid on my knee. Want to be with my wife.
Never wore a brassiere, always a bounce in her step.
Any harder, it'd bounce.
Did it bounce?
Get away from here or I'll bounce one off your head.
Say, you couldn't be hinting that she married me on an emotional bounce-back?
Dumbo, we'll bounce back so ha.
I can bounce you around off the walls.
I never yet seen one of those guys bounce.
Not getting that job knocked all the bounce out of him.

News and current affairs

This sharp balance-sheet improvement has been instrumental in enabling emerging countries to bounce back strongly from the 2008-2009 global financial crisis, whereas the West continues to hobble along.
And it is likely to be a temporary bounce, not the start of a sustained recovery.
It may bounce in any direction.
The ball flashes to and fro in happy irresponsibility - between human will and chance, freedom and limitation, success and failure, hope and the loss of hope - to bounce back into the world of hope in the next moment.
Solar radiation management would bounce a little sunlight back into space.
The economy could bounce back as those excesses were absorbed over time, making room for new investment.
My guess is that much of this is the result of traditional American ebullience: the view that what goes down will sooner or later bounce back up.
Their responses, however, have fallen short, following a familiar sequence that begins with waiting for an endogenous bounce and aspiring to self-reliance.

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