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Bounce [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A heavy blow, thrust or thump with a large solid body.

2. The bounce burst open the door.

3. A loud heavy sound, as by an explosion.

4. A boast; a threat; in low language.

5. A fish; a species of squalus or shark.

Bounce [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To leap or spring; to fly or rush out suddenly.

3. To spring or leap against any thing, so as to rebound; to beat or thump by a spring.

4. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.

5. To beat hard, or thump, so as to make a sudden noise.

6. Another bounced as hard as he could knock.

7. To boast or bully; used in familiar speech.

8. To be bold or strong.

Bounce [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

With a sudden leap; suddenly.

Bounce [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.

2. A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.

3. An explosion, or the noise of one.

5. A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).

Bounce [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.

2. To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.

3. To boast; to talk big; to bluster.

Bounce [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump; to thump.

2. To cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.

3. To eject violently, as from a room; to discharge unceremoniously, as from employment.

4. To bully; to scold.

Bounced [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Bouncer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

A boaster; a bully; in familiar language.

Bouncer [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.

3. A bold lie; also, a liar.

4. Something big; a good stout example of the kind.