Bump

Bump or Bumps may refer to:

• A collision or impact
• A raised protrusion on the skin such as a pimple, goose bump, prayer bump, lie bumps, etc

Infrastructure and industry

• Bump (road), where two routes both turn in opposite directions at an intersection
• Speed bump, a raised portion of road designed to slow traffic
• Coal mine bump, a seismic jolt occurring within a mine
• Bump (union), in a unionised work environment, a re-assignment of jobs on the basis of seniority
• Bump (television), in broadcasting, a brief announcement
• Bump, airline travel slang for the removal of passengers from an overbooked flight

Math and science

• Bump function, a mathematical function which has a non-empty bounded support
• Bump mapping, a computer graphics technique
• Bumping (chemistry), the irregular boiling of a liquid

Internet

• Bump (Internet), to post a reply to it purely in order to raise the thread's profile
• Bump (application), a popular app for the iPhone and Android smartphones which allows users to easily share information between each other

Culture

• The bumps, a birthday tradition
• Bumpside (or "Bump"), a slang term for 1967–1972 Ford F-Series trucks
• Effective dose (pharmacology) of an illegal substance; most often in reference to cocaine

Greetings

• Elbow bump, an informal greeting where two people touch, or tap, elbows
• Fist bump, an informal greeting

Sports and physical recreation

• Bump (football), a body contact alternative to a tackle and shepherding method in Australian Rules Football
• Bumps race, a type of rowing competition
• Bump (professional wrestling), making actual contact with another individual, an object, or the ground
• Bump (game), the basketball elimination game

Entertainment

• Bump the Show (BUMP+), a webseries that follows the stories of three women facing unintended pregnancies
• Bump (dance), a dance from the 1970s disco era
• BUMP (comics), 2007-8 limited edition comic book series

Characters

• Bump (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
• Mr. Bump, a Mr. Men character
• Bobby Bumps, from the 1915–1925 silent animated series

Gaming

• Bump, a pricing game played on The Price Is Right television game show from 1985-91
• Bump (video game), a 2009 casual puzzle game create by Utopian Games

Music

• Bump (album), a jazz album recorded by musician John Scofield in 2000
• "Bump, Bump, Bump", a 2003 single by B2K featuring P. Diddy
• "Bump", a single by Raven-Symoné from This Is My Time
• "Bump", a song by Fun Lovin' Criminals from Loco
• "Bump", a song by Spank Rock from YoYoYoYoYo
• "Bump", a song by Rehab from Graffiti the World
• "The Bump", a 1974 hit single by Kenny (band)
• "The Bump", a song by from Machine Gun (Commodores album)
• "Bump Bump!", 2009 single from BoA
• "Lady Bump", a 1975 solo single from Penny McLean of Silver Convention

Television

• Bump (TV series), a 1990 children's programme featuring an elephant
• Bump!, a Canadian gay and lesbian travel and lifestyle television series

People

• Bump Elliott (born 1925), American football player and coach
• Bump Hadley (1904–1963), baseball pitcher
• Bump Wills (born 1952), baseball second basemen
• Nate Bump (born 1976), baseball pitcher

Other

• Bumps River, in Centerville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
• Bump fire, in weapon shooting
• Bump gate, drive-through gate used in rural areas
• Bump start, method for starting a motor vehicle
• Bump steer, tendency of a wheel to steer as it moves upwards into jounce
• Lock bumping, a method of lock picking
• Reminiscence bump, in memory
• Thermal bump, in electronics packaging, a thermoelectric device made from thin-film thermoelectric material embedded in flip chip interconnects
• Slang for a shout-out

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bump"
• All pages with titles containing "Bump"
• Bump and grind (disambiguation)
• Bump and run (disambiguation)
• Bump in the Night (disambiguation)
• Things That Go Bump (disambiguation)
• Bumper (disambiguation)
• Bum (disambiguation)