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7 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bounce \Bounce\, v. t. 1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump. --Swift. 2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes to toss 3. To eject violently, as from a room to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment. [Collog. U. S.] 4. To bully; to scold. [Collog.] --J. Fletcher. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bounce \Bounce\, n. 1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound. 2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. --Dryden. 3. An explosion, or the noise of one [Obs.] 4. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --Johnson. De Quincey.? 5. (Zo["o]l.) A dogfish of Europe ({Scyllium catulus}). From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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.] 1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. --Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. --Dryden. 2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as she bounced into the room Out bounced the mastiff. --Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. --Thackeray. 3. To boast; to talk big to bluster. [Obs.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Bounce \Bounce\, adv With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me --Bickerstaff. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: bounce n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound [syn: {bounciness}] 2: a light springing movement upwards or forwards [syn: {leap}, {leaping}, {spring}, {bound}] 3: rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) [syn: {bouncing}] v 1: spring back spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced" [syn: {take a hop}, {spring}, {bound}, {rebound}, {recoil}, {ricochet}] 2: hit something so that it bounces, as of a ball 3: move up and down repeatedly [syn: {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 Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [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. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers 3. 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}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} and {Unix} users. 5. [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 From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]: bounce 1. (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An {electronic mail} message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "{bounce message}") to the sender is said to "bounce". 2. To play volleyball. The now-demolished {D. C. Power Lab} building used by the {Stanford AI Lab} in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; probably 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}. 4. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among {VMS} users. 5. (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer 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 [{Jargon File}] (1994-11-29)
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