Definition of Bounce

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Bounce

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

To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.

To boast; to talk big; to bluster.

To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.

To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.

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

To bully; to scold.

A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.

A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

An explosion, or the noise of one.

Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.

A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).

With a sudden leap; suddenly.

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Bounce Quotations

If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce.
Winston Churchill

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.
Jennifer Saunders

I remember all too well the premiere of Ecstasy when I watched my bare bottom bounce across the screen and my mother and father sat there in shock.
Hedy Lamarr

We've always been able to bounce back.
Tim Salmon

I expect that our associates will walk with a little more bounce in their step and understand that this company is behind them and has respect for them.
Lee Scott

It's clear that people are going to download media files, and they're going to talk to each other, and they're going to exchange information and knowledge and so forth. So this system logic is basically what you bounce off of.
Michael Nesmith

I think - I think I've always been kind of - I used to think of myself as a piece of rubber when I was a kid because I was kind of very shy and very - very emotional about things, but I kind of would bounce back.
Lynn Redgrave

We manage to bounce ideas off one another. Every band fights, but at the end of the day, we're very positive about the way we fight. At least we come out with a result.
Keith Emerson

Bounce Translations

bounce in French is bondissons, bondissez, bondissent, bondis, saut
bounce in German is prellen
bounce in Norwegian is bykse, sprette
bounce in Spanish is volver de rebote
bounce in Swedish is studsa

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