bumping
noun1
The sound or action of a bump.
- There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.1941, Gladys Mitchell, When Last I Died:
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Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race
- He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.1848 November – 1850 December, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 3, in The History of Pendennis. […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: Bradbury and Evans, […], published 1849–1850, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- antibumping, anti-bumping granule, bumpingly, bumping off, donut bumping, fist bumping, mast bumping