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bump

/bʌmp/ noun B2
  1. A light blow or jolting collision. (countable) · His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.
  2. The sound of such a collision. (countable) · He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.
  3. Any light sound. (countable, informal) · He heard bumps in the night.
  4. A fist bump. (countable) · I held my fist up, and he gave me a bump before leaving.
  5. A car accident, usually a small one. (countable) · I had a bump last time I drove into the city.
  6. A collision, especially a fall. (countable) · Did you see the bump he took last night?
  7. A dose of a drug, such as ketamine or cocaine, snorted; a small dose of a snorted drug. (countable, figuratively, slang, uncountable)
  8. A conflict. (countable, informal)

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Words, meanings, pronunciations and translations from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); how common each word is from wordfreq. Made into this dictionary by FluentPlex.