bob vs bounce

bob

noun
  • A bobbing motion; a quick up and down movement. 

  • A small wheel, made of leather, with rounded edges, used in polishing spoons, etc. 

  • A working beam in a steam engine. 

  • An unspecified amount of money. 

  • The docked tail of a horse. 

  • A graphical element, resembling a hardware sprite, that can be blitted around the screen in large numbers. 

  • A particular style of ringing changes on bells. 

  • A bobsleigh. 

  • A blow; a shake or jog; a rap, as with the fist. 

  • Any of various hesperiid butterflies. 

  • A curtsy. 

  • A bob haircut. 

  • Any round object attached loosely to a flexible line, a rod, a body part etc., so that it may swing when hanging from it. 

  • The dangling mass of a pendulum or plumb line. 

  • A short line ending a stanza of a poem. 

  • A bobber (buoyant fishing device). 

  • The short runner of a sled. 

verb
  • To bobsleigh. 

  • To strike with a quick, light blow; to tap. 

  • To curtsy. 

  • To move (something) as though it were bobbing in water. 

  • To move gently and vertically, in either a single motion or repeatedly up and down, at or near the surface of a body of water, or similar medium. 

  • To cut (hair) into a bob haircut. 

  • To shorten by cutting; to dock; to crop. 

bounce

noun
  • A movement up and then down (or vice versa), once or repeatedly. 

  • A genre of hip-hop music of New Orleans, characterized by often lewd call-and-response chants. 

  • Drugs. 

  • Scyliorhinus canicula, a European dogfish. 

  • An email that returns to the sender because of a delivery failure. 

  • The sack, dismissal. 

  • Swagger. 

  • A change of direction of motion after hitting the ground or an obstacle. 

  • A bang, boom. 

  • A talent for leaping. 

  • A good beat in music. 

verb
  • (sometimes employing the preposition with) To have sexual intercourse. 

  • To mix (two or more tracks of a multi-track audio tape recording) and record the result onto a single track, in order to free up tracks for further material to be added. 

  • To leave. 

  • To cause to move quickly up and down, or back and forth, once or repeatedly. 

  • To fail to cover (have sufficient funds for) (a draft presented against one's account). 

  • To leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound. 

  • To land hard at unsurvivable velocity with fatal results. 

  • To change the direction of motion after hitting an obstacle. 

  • To move rapidly (between). 

  • To attack unexpectedly. 

  • To land hard and lift off again due to excess momentum. 

  • To be refused by a bank because it is drawn on insufficient funds. 

  • To move quickly up and then down, or vice versa, once or repeatedly. 

  • To suggest or introduce (an idea, etc.) to (off or by) somebody, in order to gain feedback. 

  • To return undelivered. 

  • To turn power off and back on; to reset. 

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