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It may lead to a quick duck for any batsman
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bouncer
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-19c. in various senses, noun derivative of bounce (v.) in its original sense of "thump, hit." Earliest attested is "boaster, bully, braggart" (1833); also "large example of its kind" (1842); "enforcer of order in a bar or saloon" (1865, American English, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ As I walked through the door one of the two book-end bouncers began to saunter over to the reception desk. ▪ From next week, all bouncers will undergo a compulsory two-week training course and examination run by Northumbria police. ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
The Bouncer is a fictional character that appeared in comic books published by Fox Feature Syndicate . A superhero , the character was created by writer Robert Kanigher and artist Louis Ferstadt , the Bouncer first appeared in The Bouncer (no number, September ...
Usage examples of bouncer.
After being mustered out of the Home Guard, I worked as a bouncer and blackjack dealer in one of the rougher Nine Tails casinos, served as a bargemaster on the upper reaches of the Kans for two rainy seasons, and then trained as a gardener on some of the Beak estates under the landscape artist Avrol Hume.
The bouncer was back with a short, plumpish fellow with artificial-looking black hair and a darting eye.
They walked out past the same hulking broken-faced bouncer who saluted Hal with one finger, bowing a little, and Prew heard coming from the lounge the same piano music he had listened to outside, as if that same piece had been playing all the time they were inside and was still going, going on forever.
He wanted to get a good look at the showboat bouncer who had so suddenly become literary.
The Unexamined Life has its notorious Blind Bouncer night every Friday where they card you on the Honor System.
The Unexamined Life tavern on Blind Bouncer nights when Hal is in there with like Axford, Hal hitting The Life quite a bit less frequently than Axford and Struck and Troeltsch, who rarely miss a Bring-Your-Braille-I.
They had not touched her, but something had snapped, and by the time the bouncer had arrived, Devi was nine again, and screaming.
I said, there were draw- also not only found the first two bouncers, but several of ings and maps.
I had met Lusians before: rich hunters come to Hyperion to shoot ducks or demi-gyres, richer offworld gamblers slumming in the Nine Tails casinos where I had worked as a bouncer, even a few expatriates in our Home Guard unit, felons fleeing Pax justice most likely.
I said to Mademoiselle Markoff after Lieutenant Todd had gone to get the bouncer.
We believe this is the way the 90 ROBERT DOHERTY AREA 51 91 bouncers got here to Earth, as they are not capable of small doorway in a concrete wall.
There were violated one of those when I saved your life and the lives of also two bouncers found near the mothership in the same that couple up in Nebraska.
Then, it was necessary to tractor the bouncers here in Nevada were functional.
The other bouncers had been discovered in Antarccommonly known as Majic-12.
At first, it had been thought that the box was of German A second reason was that once flying the bouncers had development.