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bump verb- to kill someone US, 1914
- — Lou Shelly, Hepcats Jive Talk Dictionary, p. 8, 1945
- But somebody was afraid of what he knew and bumped him. — Mickey Spillane, I, The Jury, p. 24, 1947
- Only six days after they had bumped Bannon they had almost been trapped. — Irving Shulman, The Amboy Dukes, p. 169, 1947
- That don’t make me know who bumped him. Lots of cats didn’t go for him because he was snitchin. — Clarence Cooper Jr, The Scene, p. 182, 1960
- Any bumping I don’t want done on the premises. — Mickey Spillane, Me, Hood!, p. 33, 1963
- (of a prisoner) to let it be known that a debt owed to another inmate cannot be repaid UK
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 32, 1996
- to give an employee a promotion US, 1957
- — Harold Wentorth and Stuart Berg Flexner, Dictionary of American Slang, p. 75, 1960
- to slide a large stack of gambling chips up next to a player’s bet to size the amount of chips for a payoff US
- — Michael Dalton, Blackjack, p. 34, 1991
- in poker, to increase another player’s bet US
- — Irv Roddy, Friday Night Poker, p. 216, 1961
- to talk a customer into a higher price US
- — American Speech, pp. 309–310, Winter 1980: “More jargon of car salesmen”
- to defraud someone, to swindle someone UK
- He’s lost his job as a pools collector for bumpin the money. — Michael Munro, The Patter, Another Blast, 1988
- in professional wrestling, to fall to the mat in feigned pain US
- Bumping is, without a doubt, the most valuable thing a wrestler can learn. — Mick Foley, Mankind, p. 65, 1999
- to boost a state of drug intoxication UK, 1998
- in a striptease or other sexual dance, to thrust the hips forward as if copulating US, 1936
- “Bump, damn it! Bump! Or I’ll throw you out in the street the minute you come off that stage!” — Mark Tryon, Of G-Strings and Strippers, p. 58, 1953
- “It just don’t bump when I do—and it scratches the hell outta me.” — Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy, p. 176, 1957
- Dancing boys strip-tease with intestines, women stick severed genitals in their cunts, grind, bump, and flick it at the man of their choice. — William Burroughs, Naked Lunch, pp. 37–38, 1957
- You can sacrifice your sacro, workin’ in the backrow / Bump in a dump till you’re dead. — Stephen Sondheim, You Gotta Get a Gimmick, 1960
- I continued to bump and grind across the stage, forcing a smile as I unfastened my brassiere[.] — Blaze Starr, Blaze Starr, p. 84, 1974
- in hot rodding and low riding, to drive slowly in a lowered vehicle, especially one with a hydraulic suspension system that will bounce the car up and down US
- — John Edwards, Auto Dictionary, p. 21, 1993
- to develop breasts BAHAMAS
- — John A. Holm, Dictionary of Bahamian English, p. 31, 1982
- to play music loudly US
- — Columbia Missourian, p. 1A, 19 October 1998
▶ bump fuzz (used of a female) to have sex with another woman US- — Pamela Munro, U.C.L.A. Slang, p. 46, 1997
▶ bump gums to speak without saying much US, 1945- [T]he religious halfwits had been bumping their gums in protest about the cost[.] — Christopher Brookmyre, The Sacred Art of Stealing, p. 336, 2002
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, October 2002
▶ bump heads to fight US- — Eugene Landy, The Underground Dictionary, p. 42, 1971
▶ bump pussies (used of lesbians) to have sex, especially by engaging in vulva-to-vulva friction US- What would we do–bump pussies? — Malcolm Braly, On the Yard, p. 296, 1967
- Two girls can, by interlacing themselves like forks, “bump pussies” as we used to say when I was a lad, and enjoy all of the thrills and chills of intercourse without even fingering themselves. — Angelo d’Arcangelo, The Homosexual Handbook, p. 208, 1968
▶ bump the blanket to masturbate in bed UK- If you ned a toss [masturbation] you wait till association. We take it in turns, the rest of us go out [of the prison cell]. Don’t wanna hear you bumping the blanket in the middle of the night. — Chris Baker and Andrew Day, Lock, Stock... & A Good Slopping Out, p. 411, 2000
▶ bump titties to fight US- — Jennifer Blowdryer, Modern English, p. 57, 1985
- — Ann Lawson, Kids & Gangs, p. 56, 1994
▶ bump uglies to have sex US- And Tango adds a phrase to the popular lexicon when Sly’s Tango asks Russell’s Cash, "Did you bump uglies with my sister?" — USA Today, p. 7D, 22 December 1989
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 2, Spring 1992
- Another way to say “intercourse”–Bumping uglies[.] — Erica Orloff and JoAnn Baker, Dirty Little Secrets, p. 63, 2001
- [W]here’s the strangest place you lovely girls have ever bumped uglies? — FHM, p. 68, June 2003
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