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Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for bump

to come together or come up against with force

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to proceed with sudden, abrupt movements

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to lower in rank or grade

bump into: to find or meet by chance

bump off: to take the life of (a person or persons) unlawfully

violent forcible contact between two or more things

an unevenness or elevation on a surface

a small raised area of skin resulting from a light blow or an insect sting, for example

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Synonyms for bump

a lump on the body caused by a blow

come upon, as if by accident

dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward

remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied

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Bump, of Great Barrington, made headlines in May 2013 when an audit her office conducted found the state gave out $18 million in "questionable public assistance'' in recent years, including $2.4 million to 1,160 recipients who were either dead or used a dead person's Social Security number.
To conduct the experiment, a study participant immersed a gloved hand into a container of germs and exchanged a variety of handshakes, fist bumps or high-fives with a sterile-gloved participant.
The hygienic nature of the fist bump may be due in part to its speed but also because there is a smaller area involved it seems.
Others say the boxing ring where padded gloves made a handshake impossible, But however it got started, the fist bump (also known as "bones," "dap," "dogg," "power five," "quarter pounder," "bust," "box," "bro fists," "respect knuckles" or simply "knucks") has achieved the status of cultural ubiquity.
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2 ( ANI ): Google-acquired Bump has reportedly announced that it is shutting down so that the team can focus on other projects inside Google.
17 September 2013 - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) has taken over mobile app start-up Bump Technologies in a deal that is worth between USD30m (EUR22.5m) and USD60m, according to an unnamed source cited by AllThingsD.