bumping

verb

1. 1

   Also a form of bumppresent participle and gerund of bump

adjective

1. 1

   informalRocking, excellent, great.

noun

1. 1

   The sound or action of a bump.

   There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.

2. 2

   The violent boiling when a homogeneous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container

3. 3

   Also a form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge UniversitiesForm of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race

   He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.

Forms

plural

bumpings

comparative

more bumping

superlative

most bumping