bump around

1. 1.

   shock physically

   “Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game”

   Synonymsjarshake up

   Broadermove

Questions about bump around

What does bump around mean?

bump around means "shock physically".

What is another word for bump around?

Close synonyms include jar, shake up. 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 around a common word?

bump around is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.