Bump

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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 reassignment of jobs on the basis of seniority
• Bumper (broadcasting), in broadcasting, a brief announcement
• Bumper music or bump, in radio broadcasting a short clip of signature or theme music used for transitions between program elements
• 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

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
• Baby bump, another term for pregnancy

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 short subjects

Gaming

• Bump, a pricing game played on The Price Is Right television game show from 1985 to 1991
• Bumps (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", a song 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
• "Bump", a song by Baby Blue from No Smoke Without Fire
• "The Bump", a 1974 hit single by the band Kenny
• "The Bump", a song by the Commodores from Machine Gun
• "Bumped" (song), a song by Right Said Fred

Television

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

People

• Bump (nickname)
• Bump (surname)

Other

• Bumps River, in Centerville, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, U.S.
• The Bump, a knoll on South Georgia Island, south Atlantic Ocean
• Bump (application), a popular app for the iPhone and Android smartphones which allowed users to easily share information
• Bump (Internet), a term for moving a thread to the top of a forum
• 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
• Reminiscence bump, in memory
• Thermal bump, in electronics packaging, a thermoelectric device made from thin-film thermoelectric material embedded in flip chip interconnects

See also

• All pages beginning with "Bump"
• All pages with a title containing Bump
• "Bump Bump!", 2009 single from BoA
• "Bump, Bump, Bump", a 2003 single by B2K featuring P. Diddy
• Bumper (disambiguation)
• Bumping (disambiguation)