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BUMP AROUND
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bump around mean?
• BUMP AROUND (verb)
The verb BUMP AROUND has 1 sense:
Familiarity information: BUMP AROUND used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Shock physically
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
Context example:
Georgia was shaken up in the Tech game
Hypernyms (to "bump around" is one way to...):
displace; move (cause to move or shift into a new position or place, both in a concrete and in an abstract sense)
Sentence frames:
Somebody ----s somebody
Something ----s somebody
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