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bouncer

bounce it, it moves quickly away from a surface it has just hit or you make it do this ( ^ ) # ; jx.

; [V] The ball bounced twice before he could reach it.

it # 7 M Ik jife A 3\ o 0 Short sound waves bounce off even small objects.

o The light bounced off the river and dazzled her. ® Hj ± & 'A M M , A Mi @ 8£ o 0 [VN] She bounced the ball against the wall.

► MOVE UP AND DOWN ± > A Aj 2 [V] (of a person A) to

jump up and down on sth ( i$j: She

bounced up and down excitedly on the bed.

±88J$i#fc®fco 3 [VN] to move a child up and down while he or she is sitting on your knee in order to entertain him or her jE ( /J^ ) ffcfT.4 to move up and down; to move sth up and down ( M

Her hair bounced as she walked.

zjfj „ [also VN] 5 [V +adv./prep.] to move up and down in a particular direction ( ) MMffM: The

bus bounced down the hill.

► MOVE WITH ENERGY f\ A JE 7 rj] 6 [V +adv./prep.] (of a

person A) to move somewhere in a lively and cheerful way ) : He

bounced across the room to greet them.

► CHEQUE AH 7 [V, VN] (informal) if a cheque bounces, or a bank bounces it, the bank refuses to accept it because there is not enough money in the account

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► IDEAS i; A 8 [VN] ~ ideas (off sb)/(around) to tell sb your

ideas in order to find out what they think about them ( ®£A ) ( ±j& ) : He bounced ideas off

colleagues everywhere he went.

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► COMPUTING if % |JL A A 9 [V, VN] ~ (sth) (back) if an

email bounces or the system bounces it, it returns to the person who sent it because the system cannot deliver it ( ) #0; il® ( )

► MAKE SB LEAVE ® M' 10 [VN] (informal, especially NAmE)

~ sb (from sth) to force sb to leave a job, team, place, etc. ifi; JFi^; 1$ 7; lift: He was soon bounced from the post. „

CT be 'bouncing off the walls (informal) to be so full of energy or so excited that you cannot keep still A jfefflimm .bounce 'back to become healthy, successful or confident again after being ill/sick or having difficulties f tHi ( aScfl7

# ) ; fimnm mn recover : He’s had a lot of

problems, but he always seems to bounce back pretty

quickly, i&mmmmm&r,

bounce sb 'into sth (firf) to make sb do sth without giving them enough time to think about it

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► MOVEMENT if] ft 1 [C] the action of bouncing

; one bounce of the ball 0 {NAmE) a

bounce (= increase) in popularity jq 2 [U] the

ability to bounce or to make sth bounce #14; Jg#A: There’s not much bounce left in these balls.

^ A # 14 7 „ 0 Players complained about the uneven bounce of the tennis court.

► ENERGY tfi A 3 [U, C] the energy that a person has

M A; tit A: All her old bounce was back. Al&fi 7 iAttWMAo o There was a bounce to his step.

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► OF HAIR A A 4 [U] the quality in a person’s hair that shows that it is in good condition and means that it does not lie flat ®W#14; UtA thin fine hair, lacking in bounce

llirai on the 'bounce (BrE, informal) one after the other, without anything else coming between H ;

We’ve won six matches on the bounce. ffeC

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boun cer /'bauns9(r)/ noun 1 a person employed to stand at the entrance to a club, pub, etc. to stop people who are not wanted from going in, and to throw out people who are causing trouble inside ( fi rP , 'M

7) ) H 7 , ft A 2 (in cricket it) a ball thrown