bounce

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To rebound after having struck an object or a surface.
2. v. To move jerkily; bump: The car bounced over the potholes.
3. v. To bound: children bouncing into the room.
4. v. To be sent back by a bank as valueless: a check that bounced.
5. v. Baseball To hit a ground ball to an infielder: The batter bounced out to the shortstop.
6. v. To cause to strike an object or a surface and rebound: bounce a ball on the sidewalk.
7. v. To present or propose for comment or approval. Often used with off: bounced a few ideas off my boss.
8. v. Slang To expel by force.
9. v. Slang To dismiss from employment. See Synonyms at dismiss.
10. v. To write (a check) on an overdrawn bank account.
11. n. A rebound.
12. n. A sudden bound, spring, or leap.
13. n. The capacity to rebound; spring: a ball with bounce.
14. n. Spirit; liveliness.
15. n. Slang Expulsion; dismissal.
16. n. Chiefly British Loud, arrogant speech; bluster.
17. bounce back To recover quickly, as from a setback: The patient bounced back to good health.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To beat; thump; knock; bang.
2. To cause to bound or spring: as, to bounce a ball.
3. To eject or turn out without ceremony; expel vigorously; hence, to dismiss or discharge summarily, as from one's employment or post.
4. To beat hard or thump, so as to make a sudden noise.
5. To spring or leap against anything, so as to rebound; beat or thump by a spring; spring up with a rebound.
6. To leap or spring; come or go unceremoniously.
7. To boast or bluster; exaggerate; lie.
8. n. A sudden spring or leap.
9. n. A bound or rebound: as, you must strike the ball on the bounce.
10. n. A heavy blow, thrust, or thump.
11. n. A loud heavy sound, as of an explosion; a sudden crack or noise.
12. n. A boast; a piece of brag or bluster; boastful language; exaggeration.
13. n. A bold or impudent lie; a downright falsehood; a bouncer.
14. n. Expulsion; discharge; dismissal.
15. n. [Perhaps of diff. origin.] A local English name of the dogfish or shark, Scylliorhinus catulus.
16. With a bounce; suddenly.

Wiktionary

1. v. intransitive To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle.
2. v. intransitive To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
3. v. transitive To cause to move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly.
4. v. intransitive, informal To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds.
5. v. transitive, informal To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account).
6. v. intransitive, slang To leave.
7. v. intransitive, slang, African American Vernacular (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse.
8. v. transitive, air combat To attack unexpectedly.
9. v. intransitive, electronics To turn power off and back on; to reset
10. v. intransitive, Internet To return undelivered.
11. v. intransitive, aviation To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum.
12. n. A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle.
13. n. A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly.
14. n. An email return with any error.
15. n. The sack, licensing
16. n. A bang, boom
17. n. A genre of New Orleans music.
18. n. slang, African American Vernacular Drugs.
19. n. slang, African American Vernacular Swagger.
20. n. slang, African American Vernacular A 'good' beat.
21. n. slang, African American Vernacular A talent for leaping.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. v. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
2. v. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound.
3. v. obsolete To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
4. v. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.
5. v. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
6. v. Collog. U. S. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.
7. v. Collog. To bully; to scold.
8. n. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
9. n. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
10. n. obsolete An explosion, or the noise of one.
11. n. Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
12. n. (Zoöl.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
13. adv. With a sudden leap; suddenly.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. move up and down repeatedly
2. n. a light, self-propelled movement upwards or forwards
3. v. spring back; spring away from an impact
4. n. the quality of a substance that is able to rebound
5. v. refuse to accept and send back
6. v. come back after being refused
7. n. rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
8. v. eject from the premises
9. v. hit something so that it bounces
10. v. leap suddenly