bump
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Is bump a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also (dated, metonymic) the faculty itselfExamples: "the bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness"; "Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury."; "Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (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.countableuncountable
3. (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.Internetcountableuncountable
4. (slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.Examples: "“They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”"countableslanguncountable
5. (preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.Examples: "We sing [...] "God Save the Queen" done in mime and finally "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" to a Hawaiian rock with Phoebe doing the bump."countableuncountable
6. (uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.uncountable
verb (English)
1. (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.Examples: "As in [the online forum] carersvoicesnz, certain contributors were more visible, taking the initiative to "bump" the thread to bring it back into view if it went quiet."Internet
2. (physical chemistry, of a superheated liquid) To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.Examples: "Heat until the liquid bumps, then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours."physical
3. (transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.Examples: "Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]"transitive
4. (transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).Examples: "A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30."transitive
5. (transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.transitive
6. (intransitive, archaic) To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.Examples: "as a bittern bumps within a reed"archaicintransitive
intj (English)
1. (Internet) Posted 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.Internet
intj (English)
1. (Internet) Alternative form of bump.Internetalt-ofalternative
Definition source: Wiktionary