Bump

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Bump or Bumps may refer to:

• Bump (Internet), raising a thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads OR an abbreviation for "Bring up my post"
• Bump (union), in an unionised work environment, a re-assignment of jobs on the basis of seniority
• Bump (football), a body contact alternative to a tackle and shepherding method in Australian Rules Football
• Bumps race, a type of rowing competition
• Bump mapping, a computer graphics technique
• Speed bump, a raised portion of road designed to slow traffic
• Coal mine bump, a seismic jolt occurring within a mine
• Lock bumping, a method of lock picking
• The bumps, a birthday tradition
• Bump function, a mathematical function which has a non-empty bounded support
• Bumpside (or 'Bump'), a slang term for 1967-1972 Ford F-series trucks.
• Bump, any device used to raise objects, especially in displays "use a bump to raise the items in the back row"

In entertainment:

• Bump (Transformers), a fictional character in the Transformers universe
• Bumps (Video Game), a casual puzzle game create by Utopian Games
• Commercial bumper, a short video segment used in advertising
• Bump (Band), an atmospheric progressive rock band from Detroit, Michigan formed in 2001
• Bump (professional wrestling), making actual contact with another individual, an object, or the ground
• Bump (TV series), a 1990 children's programme featuring an elephant
• Bump (album), a Jazz album recorded by musician John Scofield in 2000
• Bump (dance), a dance from the 1970s disco era
• Bump (pricing game), a game played on The Price Is Right from 1985 through 1991
• Mr. Bump, a Mr. Men character
• "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
• "The Bump", a song by the Commodores from Machine Gun

Bump may also refer to:

• The removal of passengers from an overbooked airline flight
• Colloquialism for a skin lesion such as pimple, blackhead, etc.
• A "shout out"
• A dosage of some illegal substance (slang, most often in reference to cocaine)
• Knockout (game), the basketball elimination game
• A pregnant woman (starting to show)
• The rubbing of one's nose against another's, or in the most extreme cases, physical exchange of saliva through the mouth

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