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bouncer

[ boun-ser ]

noun

  1. a person or thing that bounces.
  2. a person who is employed at a bar, nightclub, etc., to eject disorderly persons.
  3. something large of its kind.


bouncer

/ ˈbaʊnsə /

noun

  1. slang.
    a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
  2. slang.
    a dishonoured cheque
  3. cricket another word for bumper 1
  4. a person or thing that bounces
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of bouncer1

First recorded in 1755–65; bounce + -er 1
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Example Sentences

The truth is, lots of bouncers on the market are affordable, quick to inflate, and sized for either indoor or outdoor enjoyment.

Some couples can afford to have a medical professional moonlight as a covid bouncer or send at-home PCR tests.

Jenny Wanger, director of programs at the Linux Foundation Public Health, compared the issue to showing a bouncer at a bar a driver’s license.

That woman was Ruth Westmoreland, who at the time was working at the Phase 1 as a bouncer.

It’s about whom fashion is trying to delight, whom its bouncers welcome through the door.

But the bouncer catches up with you a couple of blocks away and pops you.

He also failed a drug test and allegedly hit a bouncer so hard he punctured his eardrum.

Another bouncer found me crouched in a corner and escorted me back to the bar.

A few minutes later, the bouncer hands me a paper hat featuring an orange T-Rex about to swallow a smaller blue dinosaur.

Some said yes—but one added, "why would you want to get arrested and be a bouncer?"

To grumble, as Cox pointed out to Mrs. Bouncer, is a verb neuter meaning to complain without a cause.

Feet pounded out of the door above as Fats and the bouncer broke through.

He found himself looking up into the face of a strapping fellow who served Milligan as bouncer.

Begorra, I should know that v'ice; and I'll make the whole school shtand up togither one by one and shout, "Here's a bouncer!"

Not the least important part of the machinery is the patent “æolian bouncer,” as it is called.

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