Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Slang A person employed to expel disorderly persons from a public place, especially a bar.
- n. Baseball A ground ball hit in such a way that it bounces.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which bounces.
- n. Something big or large of its kind.
- n. A large, strong, vigorous person: as, she is a bouncer.
- n. A strong muscular fellow kept in a hotel, restaurant, or other public resort, to bounce or expel disorderly persons.
- n. A liar; a boaster; a bully.
- n. A barefaced lie.
Wiktionary
- n. informal A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
- n. cricket A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
- n. Internet An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
- n. dated One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
- n. slang, archaic A boaster; a bully.
- n. slang, archaic A bold lie.
- n. slang, archaic A liar.
- n. Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
- n. Collog. A boaster; a bully.
- n. Collog. A bold lie; also, a liar.
- n. Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
- n. a person employed by a tavern, nightclub, or other place of public meeting, to eject persons who become violent or unruly.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a person whose duty is to throw troublemakers out of a bar or public meeting
Etymologies
- to bounce + -er (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Still, no bouncer is going to let you into a club carrying a brick or rock, so even there society will impose rules on even the most common weapons.”
“The oversized man, the bouncer, is lying on the concrete outside the door with multiple gunshots all over his body and a blood pool underneath his body.”
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“Cammalleri deflected in Adam Pardy's tricky bouncer from the blue line, tying it 1-1.”
“Pauly: and yet the fat fuck who played the fat fuck bouncer is still alive … is there no justice??”
“Then there was the time I called a bouncer a rockstar and it turned out he didn't like being called a rockstar and he beat me up only for me to tell him while bloody as fuck that he just proved he's a fucking rockstar only to get me beat down some more.”
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“The bouncer is a bulldog who looks like Wilford Brimley and the password is dia-beetus!”
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“There will be bouncers but no barrage; the bouncer will be a surprise weapon.”
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“Sitting there with the hooded watchfulness of a bouncer was a muscle-bound Latino with black braids down over his shoulders, earrings, eyebrow studs, skull rings, black tank top, and nonstop tattoos.”
“Instead of … A bouncy seat, which has a typical weight limit of 18 pounds, consider an infant rocker-bouncer, which is like a bouncer seat, only it rocks.”
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