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the bounce Australian Rules football the start of play at the beginning of each quarter or after a goal

1.		bounce - (Perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check) An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification (a "bounce message") to the sender is said to "bounce".
2.		bounce - To play volleyball. The now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5 PM to 7 PM was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer, so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known volleyballers.
3.		bounce - To engage in sexual intercourse; probably from the expression "bouncing the mattress", but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the "Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink.
4.		bounce - To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily among VMS users.
5.		bounce - (VM/CMS programmers) Automatic warm-start of a computer after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night"
6.		bounce - (IBM) To power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.

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No references found	I would rather, in fact, for the distance down would be about the same, and it is pleasanter to slide than to bounce. A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great JET D'EAU at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant. Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context I finally saw plainly that there was really no way but one--I must simply give her the grand bounce. Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context	boules bouleuterion boulevard boulevard strip Boulez Boulez, Pierre Boulle, Andre Charles Boulle, André Charles Boulle, André-Charles Boullée, Étienne-Louis Boulogne Boulogne Camp Boulogne, Jean Boulogne-Billancourt Boulogne-sur-Mer Boulsover, Thomas Boult Boult, Sir Adrian boultel boultine Boulton Boulton, Matthew Boumedienne, Houari Boumédienne, Houari Boun Phan Vet bounce bounce cast bounce dive bounce message bounce rate bounce table bounced e-mail bounced message bouncing Bet bouncing putty bound bound barrel Bound Brook bound charge bound electron bound glue state bound level bound particle Bound State bound symbol bound symbol sequence bound variable bound vector Bound Vortex bound water Boundaries, Delimitation of	Boulting Boulting Boulting Boulting, John Boulton Boulton Boulton Boulton, Matthew Boulton, Matthew Boulton, Matthew boults boults boults boults BOULV Boulwarism Boumaza, Bachir Boumdeït Boumdeït Boumdeït Boumedienne Boumédienne Boumedienne, Houari Boumedienne, Houari Boumédienne, Houari Boumédienne, Houari BOUN BOUN Boun Bang Fay Boun Phan Vet bounce Bounce Address Tag Validation bounce along bounce around bounce back bounce back bounce back bounce back bounce back bounce back bounce back and forth Bounce Back Single Bounce Back Single Bounce Back Single Bounce Backs Bounce Backs Bounce Backs bounce cast bounce dive bounce for bounce for something bounce game Bounce house Bounce message Bounce message Bounce Messages Bounce Messages bounce off bounce off bounce out bounce out

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I would rather, in fact, for the distance down would be about the same, and it is pleasanter to slide than to bounce.

A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context

The veins and arteries spouted up such a prodigious quantity of blood, and so high in the air, that the great JET D'EAU at Versailles was not equal to it for the time it lasted: and the head, when it fell on the scaffold floor, gave such a bounce as made me start, although I was at least half an English mile distant.

Gulliver's Travels by Swift, Jonathan View in context

I finally saw plainly that there was really no way but one--I must simply give her the grand bounce.

Pudd'n'head Wilson by Twain, Mark View in context

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