Definitions
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- adverb   In a bumping way; with bumps orjolts .
Etymologies
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Examples
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								Isn't it interesting that the air force and all of the power of this government can't find that tall, skinny, Arab with a beard, racing through the two million acres of brilliant red "invisible" poppy fields in Afghanistan, dragging bumpingly along behind him, a shiny, glistening, four hundred pound dialysis Machine, shunted to his arm, as he skips frolicking through that two million acres of invisible Brilliant Red Poppy Crops? 
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								Into this they turned and ran bumpingly along an uneven road through a wilderness of tall Georgia pines, their slim trunks bare of foliage or branches for twenty-five or thirty feet till they feathered out at the top into the masses of ten and twelve inch needles that mark this species. 
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								Her heart beat bumpingly as she climbed the stairs. 
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								They call Nimoy’s first scene in the film “goose-bumpingly cool.” Star Trek: Three More Photos and New Information Cheat Sheet | /Film 2008 
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								One of Clay’s great powers was that he knew that an editor’s task was chest-bumpingly governmental: to make a journalist feel supported by a power greater than him - or herself. 
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								One of Clay’s great powers was that he knew that an editor’s task was chest-bumpingly governmental: to make a journalist feel supported by a power greater than him - or herself. 
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								One of Clay’s great powers was that he knew that an editor’s task was chest-bumpingly governmental: to make a journalist feel supported by a power greater than him - or herself. 
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								One of Clay’s great powers was that he knew that an editor’s task was chest-bumpingly governmental: to make a journalist feel supported by a power greater than him - or herself. 
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