Bump

Bump or Bumps may refer to:

Infrastructure and industry

  • 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 music or bump, in radio broadcasting a short clip of music used for transitions between program elements
  • Bump, airline travel slang for the removal of passengers from an overbooked flight

Math and science

Arts and entertainment

Music

  • "The Bump", a funky song by the Commodores from Machine Gun(1974)
  • "The Bump", a 1974 hit single by the band Kenny
  • 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
  • "Bump", a song by Brockhampton from Saturation

Television

Fictional characters

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

Other uses

Culture

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), a basketball elimination game

People

Other uses

  • 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 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
  • Bump stock, in weapon shooting
  • 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

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