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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of trampoline.

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Examples

  • Her knuckles trampolined against the glass pane that was next to my door and sent bullets of sound ricocheting off pictures, and books, and the potted plant my boss had given me on my first day, which I'd managed to murder.

    Todd Clayton: Stickers, Someday Todd Clayton 2012

  • Her knuckles trampolined against the glass pane that was next to my door and sent bullets of sound ricocheting off pictures, and books, and the potted plant my boss had given me on my first day, which I'd managed to murder.

    Todd Clayton: Stickers, Someday Todd Clayton 2012

  • In an attempt to investigate the performance of a trampolined interpreter on the JVM, I discovered something interesting.

    Archive 2008-07-01 Ravi 2008

  • In an attempt to investigate the performance of a trampolined interpreter on the JVM, I discovered something interesting.

    The JVM and Tail Recursion Ravi 2008

  • Our response to Palin is not only to the fact that she trampolined like a female Forrest Gump in designer eyewear into the final weeks of an already mind-bending presidential campaign --- though that surely is enough to unhinge a lot of jaws.

    'American Idol’ Meets ‘Northern Exposure’ 2008

  • Kline's slimeball circus has trampolined the ugliness of the anti - abortion terror for all the world to see and that is why so many are vomiting from these rotten tactics.

    Archive 2006-11-01 Michael Caddell 2006

  • Kline's slimeball circus has trampolined the ugliness of the anti - abortion terror for all the world to see and that is why so many are vomiting from these rotten tactics.

    California's KNOX radio is reporting Kansas stink. Michael Caddell 2006

  • In the non-trampolined version, we'd see the stack grow on every call, reaching its maximum depth at the point we return from the base case.

    B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010

  • The way to break from a trampoline-based recursion is by returning null from the trampolined function.

    B# .NET Technical Community Homepage bart 2010

  • Katie Silverton has not trampolined for twenty years, she claims.

    From the North... Keith Telly Topping 2010

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