Bump

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.”

We sing […] "God Save the Queen" done in mime and finally "Clap Hands, Here Comes Charley" to a Hawaiian rock with Phoebe doing the bump.

Call me the juice and you know I'm a stunt; ride in the car with some bump in the trunk.

For example, chain bumping, in which a bump by one employee initiates a series of consecutive bumps down a progression line before a layoff results, produces the greatest average number of reassignments per redundant employee.

"I'll try my best, but we still have a few bumps to work out," Ryder muttered.

Their car got bumped while they were turning at the junction.

I bumped the font size up to make my document easier to read.

As in [the online forum] carersvoicesnz, certain contributors were more visible, taking the initiative to "bump" the thread to bring it back into view if it went quiet.

Heat until the liquid bumps, then reduce the heat and continue the boiling for 1½ hours.

Easyjet said the compensation package for passengers bumped off flights was 'probably the most flawed piece of European legislation in recent years' […]

A colleague emails with news that her 4:30 meeting got bumped to 3:30.

as a bittern bumps within a reed

You know about the night the kid bumped Brody?

Employees with 2 years or more, and less than 8 years plant seniority, may bump a probationary employee.

After his ancestors had been browbeaten by the Puritans, and his ancestors had been driven out by the early pioneers [...], if he learned that a magnificent bronze statue is to be erected to his ancestors; wouldn't it bump an Indian?

The car bumped over the dirt road.