[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bounce \bounce\, v. t.
   1. to drive against anything suddenly and violently; to bump;
      to thump. --swift.
      1913 webster

   2. to cause to bound or rebound; sometimes, to toss.
      1913 webster

   3. to eject violently, as from a room; to discharge
      unceremoniously, as from employment. collog. u. s.
      1913 webster

   4. to bully; to scold. collog. --j. fletcher.
      1913 webster

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bounce \bounce\, n.
   1913 webster
   1. a sudden leap or bound; a rebound.
      1913 webster

   2. a heavy, sudden, and often noisy, blow or thump.
      1913 webster

            the bounce burst open the door.       --dryden.
      1913 webster

   3. an explosion, or the noise of one. obs.
      1913 webster

   4. bluster; brag; untruthful boasting; audacious
      exaggeration; an impudent lie; a bouncer. --johnson. de
      quincey.?
      1913 webster

   5. zool. a dogfish of europe scyllium catulus.
      1913 webster
see also:
scyllium catulus 

[3] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bounce \bounce\, v. i. imp.  p. p. bounced; p. pr.  vb. n.
   bouncing. oe. bunsen; cf. d. bonzen to strike, bounce,
   bons blow, lg. bunsen to knock; all prob. of imitative
   origin.
   1913 webster
   1. to strike or thump, so as to rebound, or to make a sudden
      noise; a knock loudly.
      1913 webster

            another bounces as hard as he can knock. --swift.
      1913 webster

            against his bosom bounced his heaving heart.
                                                  --dryden.
      1913 webster

   2. to leap or spring suddenly or unceremoniously; to bound;
      as, she bounced into the room.
      1913 webster

            out bounced the mastiff.              --swift.
      1913 webster

            bounced off his arm+chair.            --thackeray.
      1913 webster

   3. to boast; to talk big; to bluster. obs.
      1913 webster
see also:
bounced bouncing 

[4] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

bounce \bounce\, adv.
   with a sudden leap; suddenly.
   1913 webster

         this impudent puppy comes bounce in upon me.
                                                  --bickerstaff.
   1913 webster

[5] : WordNet (r) 2.0

bounce
     n 1: the quality of a substance that is able to rebound syn: bounciness
     2: a light springing movement upwards or forwards syn: leap,
         leaping, spring, saltation, bound
     3: rebounding from an impact or series of impacts syn: bouncing
     v 1: spring back; spring away from an impact; "the rubber ball
          bounced"; "these particles do not resile but they unite
          after they collide" syn: resile, take a hop, spring,
           bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet
     2: hit something so that it bounces; "bounce a ball"
     3: move up and down repeatedly syn: jounce
     4: come back after being refused; "the check bounced" ant: clear
     5: leap suddenly; "he bounced to his feet"
     6: refuse to accept and send back; "bounce a check"
     7: eject from the premises; "the ex-boxer's job is to bounce
        people who want to enter this private club"
see also:
bounciness leap leaping spring saltation bound 
bouncing resile take a hop rebound recoil 
reverberate ricochet jounce clear 

[6] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

331 moby thesaurus words for "bounce":
   am signal, crt spot, dm display, doppler signal, fm signal,
   highland fling, if signal, im display, rf amplifier, rf echoes,
   rf signal, rf stage, adaptability, airiness, and jump, animation,
   ax, backfire, backlash, backlashing, beam, beat signal, blips,
   bludgeon, bluff, bluster, bluster and bluff, bob, bobble,
   boomerang, boot, boot out, bounce, bounce back, bounces,
   bounciness, bound, bound back, brag, brave show, break, breeziness,
   broad jump, browbeat, buck, buckjump, bulldoze, bully, bullyrag,
   bump, buoyance, buoyancy, bust, can, cannon, cannon off, caper,
   capriole, caracole, carefreeness, carom, cashier, cast, cast out,
   cavort, chatter, chirpiness, chuck out, clear, contrecoup, cow,
   curvet, cut a dido, cut capers, debonairness, defenestrate,
   defrock, degrade, demivolt, demote, deplume, depose, deprive,
   detrude, didder, direct signal, disbar, discard, discharge,
   disemploy, dismiss, displace, display, displume, dither,
   double-dot display, dragoon, drum out, dynamism, echo, echo signal,
   eject, elasticity, energy, exclude, expel, extensibility, extrude,
   falter, fire, flexibility, flounce, fly back, flying jump, frisk,
   furlough, galliard, gambado, gambol, gasconade, gelandesprung,
   get-up-and-go, give, give the ax, give the gate, give the hook, go,
   grand jete, grimace, handspring, have an ague, have repercussions,
   heave out, hector, high jump, hippety-hop, hop, hurdle, hustle,
   intimidate, jactitate, jar, jauntiness, jerk, jete, jettison, jig,
   jigget, jiggle, jog, joggle, jolt, jostle, jounce, jump,
   jump about, jump over, jump shot, jump turn, jump-hop, jump-off,
   junk, kick, kick back, kick downstairs, kick out, kick upstairs,
   kickback, lash back, lavolta, lay off, leap, leap over, leapfrog,
   let go, let out, levity, life, light heart, lightheartedness,
   lightness, lightsomeness, liveliness, local oscillator signal,
   long jump, lop, make redundant, morris, negotiate, obtrude, oust,
   out-herod herod, output signal, overjump, overleap, overskip,
   peacockery, peacockishness, pension off, pep, perkiness, pertness,
   picture, pips, pole vault, pounce, pounce on, pounce upon, prance,
   put out, quake, quaver, quiver, radar signal,
   radio-frequency amplifier, radio-frequency signal,
   radio-frequency stage, rage, ramp, rant, rave, read out of,
   reading, rebound, rebuff, recalcitrate, recalcitration, recoil,
   reflected signal, reflection, reject, release, remove, repercuss,
   repercussion, replace, repulse, resile, resilience, resiliency,
   responsiveness, retire, return, return signal, ricochet, rictus,
   roister, rollick, romp, running broad jump, running high jump,
   sack, saut de basque, separate forcibly, shake, shiver, shock,
   shortwave signal, shudder, signal, signal display, ski jump, skip,
   slang, snap, snap back, splutter, spot, spring, spring back,
   springiness, sputter, start, start aside, start up, steeplechase,
   storm, stretch, stretchability, stretchiness, strip, strut,
   strutting, superannuate, surplus, suspend, swagger, swaggering,
   swank, swash, swashbuckle, swashbucklering, swashbucklery,
   swashbuckling, target image, terminate, throw away, throw out,
   throw overboard, thrust out, tic, tone, tonicity, tonus, toss out,
   tour jete, trace, transmitter signal, tremble, tremor, trip,
   turn off, turn out, twitch, twitter, unfrock,
   unidirectional signal, updive, upleap, upspring, vapor, vault,
   verve, vibrate, video signal, vitality, vivacity, wobble, yield,
   zest, zip

[7] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

bounce v. 1. common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check an
   electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error
   notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. see also bounce
   message. 2. stanford 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 p.m. to 7 p.m. 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. to engage in sexual
   intercourse; prob. 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. to casually reboot
   a system in order to clear up a transient problem possibly editing a
   configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at
   boot time. reported primarily among vms and unix users. 5. vm/cms
   programmers _automatic_ warm-start of a machine after an error. "i
   logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the
   night" 6. ibm to power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.


see also:
bounce message d. c. power lab boink vms unix power cycle 

[8] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

bounce
     
        1. 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. 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. 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. to casually reboot a system in order to clear up a
        transient problem.  reported primarily among vms users.
     
        5. 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. ibm to power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.
     
        jargon file
     
        1994-11-29
     
     
see also:
electronic mail bounce message d. c. power lab stanford ai lab boink vms 
power cycle jargon file 

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