Definitions for bumps

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Spelling: [buhmp]

IPA: /bʌmp/

Bumps is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 52 anagrams from letters in bumps (bmpsu).

Definitions for bumps

noun

1. an act or instance of bumping; collision; blow.
2. the shock of a blow or collision.
3. a swelling or contusion from a blow.
4. a small area raised above the level of the surrounding surface; protuberance:
5. Informal. a promotion or demotion; transfer to a higher or lower level:
6. Informal. an increase in amount, especially of salary or a wager:
7. Aeronautics. a rapidly rising current of air that gives an airplane a severe upward thrust.
8. a dance movement in which the pelvis is abruptly thrust forward in a provocative manner, especially to the accompaniment of an accented musical beat. Compare grind (def 20).
9. Mining. crump (def 6).

Verb phrases

1. bump into, Informal. to meet by chance:
2. bump off, Slang. to kill, especially to murder:

verb (used with object)

1. to come more or less violently in contact with; collide with; strike:
2. to cause to strike or collide:
3. to dislodge or displace by the force of collision.
4. to dislodge by appropriating the privileges of:
5. to demote or dismiss:
6. to force upward; raise:
7. to move to a new position:
8. Digital Technology. to move (an online post or thread) to the top of the reverse chronological list by adding a new comment or post to the thread:
9. Poker. raise (def 24).

verb (used without object)

1. to come in contact or collide with (often followed by against or into):
2. to bounce along; proceed in a series of jolts:
3. to dance by thrusting the pelvis forward abruptly, in a provocative manner, especially to the accompaniment of an accented musical beat. Compare grind (def 14).
4. to boil with violent jolts caused by the sudden eruption of large bubbles through the surface.

Origin of bumps

First recorded in 1560-70; imitative

Examples for bumps

bumps, and a sale arterwards of new-wrecked timber on the beach.

But when bumps announced she was thirsty they looked rather dismayed.

They cease for a moment As the rattling clangor Of the trolley bumps by.

"There is no place like home after all," she said as she sat in a low wicker-chair with bumps on her lap.

Their mother had died at bumps' birth, their father a year after.

"You ought not to have let bumps go," said Miss Webb sharply.

bumps trotted after Jack, but Jill betook herself to their hammock.

bumps had sprained her foot, and Jack's cut on his head was a deep and painful one.

Both Jack and bumps were on the sick-list for the next few days.

From which it may be inferred that Mr. bumps was something of a character.