Bumping

v. strike, hit; collide; be jolted, be shaken; dance with the pelvis thrust toward the front in an erotic manner

Bumping can refer to:Bump (union), a re-assignment of jobs on the basis of seniority in unionised organisationsBump (Internet), a technique used on an internet forum to raise a topic thread's profileLock bumping, a method of lock pickingSudden uncontrolled boiling, in the context of laboratory experiments.
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Noun
1. a lump on the body caused by a blow
(hypernym) injury, hurt, harm, trauma
2. something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form
(synonym) bulge, hump, gibbosity, gibbousness, jut, prominence, protuberance, protrusion, extrusion, excrescence
(hypernym) projection
(hyponym) frontal eminence
3. an impact (as from a collision); "the bump threw him off the bicycle"
(synonym) blow
(hypernym) impact
(hyponym) jolt, jar, jounce
(derivation) knock
Verb
1. knock against with force or violence; "My car bumped into the tree"
(synonym) knock
(hypernym) hit, strike, impinge on, run into, collide with
(see-also) run into, bump into, jar against, butt against, knock against
(derivation) blow
2. come upon, as if by accident; meet with; "We find this idea in Plato"; "I happened upon the most wonderful bakery not very far from here"; "She chanced upon an interesting book in the bookstore the other day"
(synonym) find, happen, chance, encounter
3. dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward; "bump and grind"
(hypernym) dance, trip the light fantastic, trip the light fantastic toe
4. assign to a lower position; reduce in rank; "She was demoted because she always speaks up"; "He was broken down to Sargeant"
(synonym) demote, relegate, break, kick downstairs
(hypernym) delegate, designate, depute, assign
(hyponym) reduce
(see-also) murder, slay, hit, dispatch, bump off, polish off, remove
5. remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied; "The new employee dislodged her by moving into her office space"
(synonym) dislodge, displace
(hypernym) expel, eject, chuck out, exclude, throw out, kick out, turf out, boot out, turn out
(hyponym) throw

(p. pr. & vb. n.)
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Increment. E.g. C's ++ operator. It is used especially of counter variables, pointers and index dummies in "for", "while", and "do-while" loops.
(1994-11-29)