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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bounce \Bounce\, v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. --Swift. [1913 Webster] 2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss. [1913 Webster] 3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.] [1913 Webster] 4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher. [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bounce \Bounce\, n. [1913 Webster] 1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. [1913 Webster] 2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. [1913 Webster] The bounce burst open the door. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 3. An explosion, or the noise of one. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De Quincey.? [1913 Webster] 5. (Zool.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus}). [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Bounced}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Bouncing}.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.] [1913 Webster] 1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. [1913 Webster] Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. [1913 Webster] Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift. [1913 Webster] Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray. [1913 Webster] 3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Bounce \Bounce\, adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly. [1913 Webster] This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. --Bickerstaff. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: bounce n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: {bounce}, {bounciness}] 2: a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards [syn: {leap}, {leaping}, {spring}, {saltation}, {bound}, {bounce}] 3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: {bounce}, {bouncing}] v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" [syn: {bounce}, {resile}, {take a hop}, {spring}, {bound}, {rebound}, {recoil}, {reverberate}, {ricochet}] 2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball" 3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: {bounce}, {jounce}] 4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" [ant: {clear}] 5: leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet" 6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check" 7: eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club" From The Jargon File (version 4.4.7, 29 Dec 2003) [jargon]: bounce v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to bounce. See also {bounce message}. 2. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.: from the expression ?bouncing the mattress?, but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded ?Try bouncing me, Tigger!? from the Winnie-the-Pooh books. Compare {boink}. 3. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among {VMS} and {Unix} users. 4. [VM/CMS programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an error. ?I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night? 6. [IBM] To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it.