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Elastic cord
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bungee
Alternative clues for the word bungee
Word definitions for bungee in dictionaries
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Bungee may refer to: Bungee cord , also called shock cord, an engineered stretchable cord Bungee jumping , an adventure sport Bungee language or Bungi creole, and its related population, existing mainly along the north-south trade routes of Manitoba, Canada ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1930, "elastic rope;" used in late 19c. British schoolboy slang for "rubber eraser;" probably from notions of bouncy and spongy ; first record of bungee jumping is from 1979.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bungee \Bun"gee\, n. (Aeronautics) a spring or other elastic device, especially one attached to a control to facilitate its manipulation. same as bungee cord .
Usage examples of bungee.
Tally gulped, forcing herself to watch all the way down, until the guy was caught by his bungee jacket a few seconds before splatting.
The bungee jacket used the same lifters as the hoverstruts that held the spindly structures up.
I was trapped up on the roof, so I grabbed a bungee jacket and jumped off.
Like the buildings and bridges held up by hoverstruts, or jumping off a rooftop with a bungee jacket on, nothing was quite real there.
The bungee jacket would go back to the art school basement that night.
They do all the same stuff we do: bungee jump, fly, play with fireworks.
David tightened the straps of his bungee jacket and jumped onto his boards.
Tally began to anticipate the sickening jolt of her bungee jacket pulling her up.
Tally wondered again if bungee jackets could handle a fall from this distance.
When she reached it, she jumped into space, hoping her bungee jacket still had some charge.
A yellow-and-green bungee cord was wrapped tightly around his ankles, which explained the weird tingling he was starting to become aware of in his feet.
Nicky, eyes closed, limp as a bag of garbage, hands bound behind her back, bungee cord around her ankles, duct tape covering her mouth.
John Bell Williams, who has his own radio program in Birmingham, Alabama, wrote the lyrics to all the Bungee Condom spots used on my radio program and reprinted here.
And this patented inner tread means Bungee Condoms hug the surface to prevent dangerous slips and slides.
She could move her head and she saw that her wrists were secured with double-tied bungee cords.