bump

1. 1.

   a lump on the body caused by a blow

   Broaderinjury
2. 2.

   something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings

   “the gun in his pocket made an obvious bulge”

   “the hump of a camel”

   “he stood on the rocky prominence”

   “the occipital protuberance was well developed”

   “the bony excrescence between its horns”

   Synonymsbulgehumpswellinggibbositygibbousnessjutprominenceprotuberanceprotrusionextrusionexcrescence

   Broaderprojection

   Narrowerfrontal eminenceoccipital protuberancebellycaputmogulnubsnagwart
3. 3.

   an impact (as from a collision)

   “the bump threw him off the bicycle”

   Synonymsblow

   Broaderimpact

   Narrowerjoltconcussionrapknockpoundingsideswipeslap

Other forms of bump

plural

bumps·

past tense

bumped·

present participle

bumping·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about bump

What does bump mean?

bump means "knock against with force or violence". That is the primary sense; the word has 8 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in bump?

bump has 1 syllable: bump. In IPA it is /ˈbʌmp/.

What is another word for bump?

Close synonyms include knock, find, happen, chance, encounter. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is bump a common word?

bump is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.