English

Verb

1. past of bump

• Bump (Internet), raising a thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads
• Bump (union), in an unionised work environment, a re-assignment of jobs on the basis of seniority
• Bump (football), a body contact alternative to a tackle and shepherding method in Australian Rules Football
• Bump (rowing), a feature of rowing at Oxford and Cambridge
• Bumps race, a type of rowing competition
• Bump mapping, a computer graphics technique
• Speed bump, a raised portion of road designed to slow traffic
• Coal mine bump, a seismic jolt occurring within a mine
• Lock bumping, a method of lock picking
• The bumps, a birthday tradition

• Bump (Music), a progressive rock/pop group from Detroit, MI founded in 2001
• Bump (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe.
• Bump (television), a short video segment used in advertising
• Bump (professional wrestling), making actual contact with another individual, an object, or the ground
• Bump (TV series), a 1990 children's programme featuring an elephant
• "Bump (song)", a 2005 single by Raven-Symoné
• Bump (album), a Jazz album recorded by musician John Scofield in 2000
• Bump (dance), a dance from the 1970s disco era
• Bump (pricing game), a game played on The Price Is Right from 1985 through 1991
• Mr. Bump, a Mr. Men character
• "Bump, Bump, Bump", a 2003 single by B2K featuring P. Diddy
• The Bump, a 1974 hit single by Kenny

• The removal of passengers from an overbooked airline flight
• Colloquialism for a skin lesion such as pimple, blackhead, etc.
• A "shout out"
• A dosage of some illegal substance (slang, most often in reference to cocaine)
• The basketball elimination game invented by Keith Setty and Garyn Waits in 1987. Knockout (game)
• A pregnant celebrity (starting to show)
• A small dose of cocaine to continue the recreational effect or prevent the comedown.