Usually means: Elevate, promote, or collide lightly.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. bump: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bump: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bump: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bump: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bump: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bump, bump: Wordnik
  7. bump: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. BUMP, Bump, bump: Wiktionary
  9. bump: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bump: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bump: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Bump, bump: Dictionary.com
  13. bump: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bump: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bump (Internet), Bump (TV series), Bump (album), Bump (application), Bump (dance), Bump (disambiguation), Bump (football), Bump (nickname), Bump (professional wrestling), Bump (rowing), Bump (union), Bump, Bump, The Bump: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Bump: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. bump: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. bump: Rhymezone
  19. bump: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. bump: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. bump: Free Dictionary
  22. bump: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  23. bump: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. bump: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Technical Glossary of Theatre Terms (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bump (disambiguation): Legal dictionary
  2. bump: Legal dictionary

Computing (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. bump: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. bump: Netlingo
  3. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  4. Bump (disambiguation), bump: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
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  3. bump: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Ka-BOOM! Comicbook Words on Historical Principles (No longer online)
  2. BUMP: Acronym Finder
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. bump: Idioms

Slang (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bump (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump, bump: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. Totally Unofficial Rap (No longer online)
  4. American-Australian Slang Dictionary (No longer online)
  5. B.U.M.P, The Bump: Urban Dictionary
  6. Bump: Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: Hardboiled Slang
  7. Bump: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade

Sports (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bump: Dan's Poker
  2. Bump: Backgammon
  3. winyourwager.com Gambling Glossary (No longer online)
  4. Bump: Gambling Glossary
  5. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  6. Bump: Sports Definitions

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
noun:  A light blow or jolting collision.
noun:  The sound of such a collision.
noun:  A protuberance on a level surface.
noun:  A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.
noun:  (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymically) the faculty itself
noun:  (rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.
noun:  The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.
noun:  (Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
noun:  A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.
noun:  (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.
noun:  (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.
noun:  In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.
noun:  (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.
noun:  A training match for a fighting dog.
noun:  (snooker, slang) The jaw of either of the middle pockets.
noun:  (US, slang, uncountable) Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.
noun:  (US, broadcasting) A short, self-promotional spot on a radio or television station.
noun:  (industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.
noun:  (card games) In the game of khanhoo, the act of claiming a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
noun:  (colloquial) A minor problem or difficulty.
verb:  To knock against or run into with a jolt.
verb:  To move up or down by a step; displace.
verb:  (Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.
verb:  (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.
verb:  (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.
verb:  (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).
verb:  (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.
verb:  (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.
verb:  (printing, dated) To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.
verb:  (slang, transitive) To assassinate; to bump off.
verb:  (industrial relations, transitive) To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.
verb:  (colloquial, dated) To anger, irritate.
verb:  (card games) In the game of khanhoo, to claim a newly discarded card when it is not one's turn, permitted when one can use the card to form a meld other than a sequence.
verb:  (slang) To play music through a speaker, often loudly and in public.
verb:  (criminal slang and US military slang, circa 1920–1950) To encounter and stop, to catch.
noun:  The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.
verb:  Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.
noun:  A surname.

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