What does bump mean?
Bump means A light blow or jolting collision..
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/bʌmp/ · noun
A light blow or jolting collision..
His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.
He heard a loud bump and saw the front part of his car was broken and the driver of the other car was running to apologise.
It had upon its brow / A bump as big as a young cockerel's stone.
the bump of veneration; the bump of acquisitiveness
Our task is to elevate the character of the people, raising up, in fact, their bump of self-esteem and suppressing the bumps of servility and fury.
Another, with the bump of order unnaturally developed, had his folios and quartos all reduced, in binding, to one size, so that they might look even on his bookshelves.
US presidential nominees get a post-convention bump in survey ratings.
“They're getting their drugs mixed up,” she said. “If someone did a line of coke, it would be a very different size than if someone did a bump of ketamine, right? So if they're thinking it's cocaine and they do a line, they could go into a k-hole and be completely unable to move for hours. Maybe not hours, but for a while.”
Use bump when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bump means A light blow or jolting collision..
Common synonyms include baby bump, break, encounter, chance.
Possible antonyms include advance, promote, elevate, raise.
His car had a tiny bump with a moving bus.
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