Definitions for bounce

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Spelling: [bouns]

IPA: /baʊns/

Bounce is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 14 points.

You can make 82 anagrams from letters in bounce (bcenou).

Definitions for bounce

noun

1. a bound or rebound:
2. a sudden spring or leap:
3. ability to rebound; resilience:
4. vitality; energy; liveliness:
5. the fluctuation in magnitude of target echoes on a radarscope.
6. Slang. a dismissal, rejection, or expulsion:

adverb

1. with a bounce; suddenly.

Verb phrases

1. bounce back, to recover quickly:

verb (used with object)

1. to cause to bound and rebound:
2. to refuse payment on (a check) because of insufficient funds:
3. to give (a bad check) as payment:
4. Slang. to eject, expel, or dismiss summarily or forcibly.

verb (used without object)

1. to spring back from a surface in a lively manner:
2. to strike the ground or other surface, and rebound:
3. to move or walk in a lively, exuberant, or energetic manner:
4. to move along in a lively manner, repeatedly striking the surface below and rebounding:
5. to move about or enter or leave noisily or angrily (followed by around, about, out, out of, into, etc.):
6. (of a check or the like) to fail to be honored by the bank against which it was drawn, due to lack of sufficient funds.

Origin of bounce

1175-1225; Middle English buncin, bounsen, variant of bunkin, apparently cognate with Dutch bonken to thump, belabor, bonzen to knock, bump

Examples for bounce

The whole idea was to be a stone wall and just let everyone else bounce off us.

"bounce our bombs right into the open end of the hangar," Stan said, grinning.

See, I'd get hot and hotter, plase your honour, till I'd bounce!

Glass is elastic; you know how you can bounce a glass marble.

The tone in which this was spoken was harsh and stentorian, and almost made me bounce.

In contrast, word that Ebola might be sexually transmitted would likely bounce very differently.

After all, with twerking, Cyrus was appropriating the hip-hop dance moves of Southern black women in bounce music and culture.

Ojile likens it to chronic sleep deprivation: An occasional all-nighter is rough, but you bounce back.

Yet you can easily bounce it to your friend and he can bounce it to you.

The gosling's best chance at surviving the jump is to bounce off the cliff on its soft belly.