See Also: Bounce(finance)
Bounce(money)
bounce(medicine)
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Dead cat bounce(finance)
bounce 1, verb(dictionary)
Bounce - Golf(gambling)

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bounce noun1. E16.
[from the verb.]
A resounding knock; a heavy blow, a thump; an explosion, the report of a gun. Now rare or obsolete. E16.
A leap, a bound; esp. the rebound of a ball etc. from a hard surface. E16.
on the bounce (a) in continual spasmodic motion; (b) in the act of rebounding.
Orig., a swaggering boast, a boastful falsehood. Now, swagger, exaggeration; rebounding power, vitality, exuberance. E18.
De Quincey The whole story is a bounce of his own. L. P. Hartley All the glow and bounce and boyishness had gone out of him.
b. A buoyant musical rhythm. colloq. (orig. US). M20.
An act of ejection or dismissal. slang (orig. US). L19.
Comb.: bounce-flash (a device for giving) reflected photographic flashlight.
bouncy adjective that bounces, boisterous, buoyant; resilient, springy (bouncy castle: see CASTLE noun1 1b): E20.