verb

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To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.

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The tennis ball bounced off the wall before coming to rest in the ditch.

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To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.

example

He bounces nervously on his chair.

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To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly.

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He bounced the child on his knee.

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To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback.

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I'm meeting Bob later to bounce some ideas off him about the new product range.

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To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.

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She bounced happily into the room.

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To move rapidly (between).

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(of a cheque/check) To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.

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We can’t accept further checks from you, as your last one bounced.

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To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).

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He tends to bounce a check or two toward the end of each month, before his payday.

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To leave.

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Let’s wrap this up, I gotta bounce.

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To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

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(sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.

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(air combat) To attack unexpectedly.

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The squadron was bounced north of the town.

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To turn power off and back on; to reset

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See if it helps to bounce the router.

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(of an e-mail message or address) To return undelivered.

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The girl in the bar told me her address was thirsty@example.com, but my mail to that address bounced back to me.

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To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.

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The student pilot bounced several times during his landing.

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(skydiving) To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results.

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After the mid-air collision, his rig failed and he bounced. BSBD.

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(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.

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Bounce tracks two and three to track four, then record the cowbell on track two.

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To bully; to scold.

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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; to knock loudly.

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To boast; to bluster.

adjective

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Unsuccessful delivery of email

Examples of bounced in a Sentence

The two children bounced into the room.

The buggy bounced over a rock and she clutched his arm to keep from falling off.

It bounced around her head, first in disbelief, then in shock, and finally, in anger.

Toby squealed again and bounced to his feet, beginning a whirling dance.

He bounced on the bed.

Her blonde curls bounced as she trotted down the stairs.

Add to the mix bounced lighting, and liquid base face makeup, and you have the recipe for dramatic close-ups.

I owed approximately $20,000 for bounced checks and was asked to repay them.

After returning to the States as a military brat, she bounced from Wyoming to Washington State, writing all the while.

Catching a bounced ball is easier to catch, because of the auditory cue from the ball hitting the floor.

Kavanagh's 30-yard free kick bounced back off Delaney's right post and Scott Young volleyed onto the crossbar from another Kavanagh corner.

An Austrian circus dwarf died recently when he bounced sideways from a trampoline and was swallowed by a hippopotamus.

A long throw by Mark Ducket bounced invitingly for Wayne Mills and he headed over hapless keeper Barisic.

They bounced around, they drove lunar rovers, They climbed up hills and rolled over and over.

Everywhere she looked, sickly colors bounced from bubbling test tubes, and dark corners gave suspect shrieks.

Gaultier bounced back after losing the opening game to win the second and third but visibly tired in the fourth as Ricketts tightened up.

The ball was then chipped ahead and bounced nicely for the speedy winger to go between the posts, with the conversion added.

In the 102nd minute Hurst drove the ball against the underside of the crossbar whence it bounced down over the line.

No sofa is made to be bounced on; the coils should give slightly when you sit without noticeably sinking.

The signal is bounced to different "stations" on the network.

If a light is bounced off of a mirror, that lens is a reflector.

You can cancel checks, but the process can result in bounced checks if the correct check numbers are not reported to the bank.

Again, the specific fee amounts depend on the card issuer but are generally the same as if you were overdrawn on your checking account or bounced a check.

My supplier wanted back pay for $20,000 in bounced checks and other money I owed.

Nationally knows as TomKat, they gained notoriety after Tom bounced on the couch at The Oprah Winfrey Show like a giddy child.

First, her wardrobe designer claimed that her check from Braxton bounced, now her bank is looking to foreclose on her house because Braxton has failed to make over $12,000 in mortgage payments.

Holland America bounced back in the 1950s, when it turned its focus on tourism.

In this way, you may have directly bounced out three balls, but as a result, six, nine, maybe even twelve balls are going to be eliminated!

The identically-designed set is then bounced out of the field (hence the name of the game), and the game continues.

Five-year-olds can skip, jump rope, catch a bounced ball, walk on their tiptoes, balance on one foot for over eight seconds, and engage in beginning acrobatics.

However, shoppers can sometimes come across rare rings that were never owned or worn but bounced from shop to shop over the years.

It's feasible that the car headlights bounced off the bird's eyes to create an eerie red glow.

All of the girls made it into the house, unlike the first season when Michael's right hand man Big Jon surveyed the girls and bounced some of them on looks alone before entering the mansion.

Rycroft bounced back from this rejection, though it was clearly difficult for her to hear confirmation of this news on national television.

He bounced from job to job and frequently needed help from his mom.

I homeschooled myself through high school and did contracts as I bounced around.

As he turned, the lights of a silent ambulance bounced across the long stretch of pasture between the highway and the mangled car.

Her own words bounced off the wall and came back as a flash of memory and imagination.

Leaping on the bed, which was now in her room at the Giddon home, she bounced up to the window.

He bounced to his feet.

Martha bounced back on the bed and looked up at the ceiling.

Cynthia gripped her husband's hand in a circulation-stopping grip as a deep dip bounced them to the ground.

Martha bounced around, thrilled to be back in the routine, and joined Fred in passing out more campaign literature.

The pod bounced once and slammed into the ground.

She bounced between them, unable to catch her balance.

Fred O'Connor bounced into the room before the woman could comment further.

Cynthia bounced down to the floor to join the pair.

The word is he fell a pretty fair distance and bounced a couple of times.

His face lit up in a smile at seeing his friend and the two bounced over to the sofa together.

With deadly accuracy, she threw the ball at him, laughing when it bounced off his leather coat and sprayed a mist of white crystals in his face.

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