Bounce

v. i.	1.	[imp. & p. p. Bounced ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing ( ).]
	1.	To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly. Another bounces as hard as he can knock. - Swift. Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart. - Dryden.
	2.	To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room. Out bounced the mastiff. - Swift. Bounced off his arm+chair. - Thackeray.
	3.	To boast; to talk big; to bluster.
v. t.	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.
n.	1.	A sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
	2.	A heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump. The bounce burst open the door. - Dryden.
	3.	An explosion, or the noise of one.
	4.	Bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer.
	5.	(Zool.) A dogfish of Europe (Scyllium catulus).
adv.	1.	With a sudden leap; suddenly. This impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me. - Bickerstaff.

Noun	1.	bounce - the quality of a substance that is able to rebound Synonyms: bounciness
	2.	bounce - a light springing movement upwards or forwards Synonyms: leap, leaping, bound, spring, saltation
	3.	bounce - rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts) Synonyms: bouncing
Verb	1.	bounce - spring back; spring away from an impact; "The rubber ball bounced"; "These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide" Synonyms: rebound, ricochet, take a hop, recoil, resile, spring, bound, reverberate
	2.	bounce - hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball"
	3.	bounce - move up and down repeatedly Synonyms: jounce
	4.	bounce - come back after being refused; "the check bounced" Antonyms: clear - be debited and credited to the proper bank accounts; "The check will clear within 2 business days"
	5.	bounce - leap suddenly; "He bounced to his feet"
	6.	bounce - refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check"
	7.	bounce - eject from the premises; "The ex-boxer's job is to bounce people who want to enter this private club"

1.		bounce - (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce".
2.		bounce - To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers.
3.		bounce - To engage in sexual intercourse; probably from the expression "bouncing the mattress", but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink.
4.		bounce - To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among VMS users.
5.		bounce - (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night"
6.		bounce - (IBM) To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.

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