Crossword clues for bounced
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bounce \Bounce\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Bounced; p. pr. & vb. n. Bouncing.] [OE. bunsen; cf. D. bonzen to strike, bounce, bons blow, LG. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative origin.]
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To strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden noise; a knock loudly.
Another bounces as hard as he can knock.
--Swift.Against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
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To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound; as, she bounced into the room.
Out bounced the mastiff.
--Swift.Bounced off his arm+chair.
--Thackeray. To boast; to talk big; to bluster. [Obs.]
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: bounce)
Usage examples of "bounced".
Their haste, their muttered apologies bounced off the numb shell of my exterior.
It proved difficult enough to keep his head above water in the rapid current which bounced him around.
He hit it square, but the low-caliber slug just bounced off the scaly hide.
Klonski bounced up and down in his chair in amazement and began to howl with laughter, rolling from side to side, until the tears streamed down his warty face.
He bounced off it, saw the 'unimpeded view of his objective, and charged forward.
They were entering the valley now and Bakkun needed all his attention on his flying as the thermals caught the light sled and bounced it around.
Resigned but unhappy, he allowed himself to be towed along at a surprising speed through a patch of tiny asteroids that bounced off the Thek craft and embedded themselves into the nose of his ship.
As soon as they were clear, he bounced messages to the beacons: Scout coming in, towing escape pod NM-EC-02, intact, beacon damaged.
Bronze-haired Liami, who bounced in and out of beds with the same verve as she gobbled dessert treats on holidays.
A tracked assault pod straight out of her childhood nightmare bounced crazily from the escort's docking bay and its artificial gravity, to the cruiser's, landing so hard that Sassinak winced in sympathy with its contents, enemies though they were.
But some had already bounced back, and some had relatives already coming to take them into known families.
Her own message bounced back, and appeared as a true incoming message on the computer and the board.
Just to be on the safe side, she uplinked on her own and double-sent everything, but she knew that whatever she sent off that way would be subject to delays as it bounced from remote hyperwave relay-station to relay-station, taking the long way "home.
Fly free, little birds—the records you so thoughtfully bounced all over the sector are all we need to convict these perps, wrap them up, and stick them where they have to pump in daylight.
Hiding in that corner, you'd have been bounced around like three dice in a cup!