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bouncing

noun

  1. ball control skill
L317273 on Wikidata ↗

adjective

No English definition recorded for this entry.

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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ˈbaʊnsɪŋ/

adj

  1. Healthy; vigorous.

    a bouncing baby girl

    By the side of many tall and bouncing young ladies in the establishment, Rebecca Sharp looked like a child. But she had the dismal precocity of poverty.

  2. Excessively big; whopping.

    a bouncing reckoning

noun

  1. The act of something that bounces.

    […] this book, with its multiple trajectories and frequently violent juxtapositions, is the record, in many senses, of those bouncings.

verb

  1. present participle and gerund of bounce