Bump vs. Bunny — What's the Difference?

To strike or collide with

A rabbit, especially a young one.

To cause to knock against an obstacle

A person of a specific type

To knock to a new position; shift

(Sports) A shot that is uncontested or should be easily made, as in basketball.

To shake up and down; jolt

A rabbit, especially a juvenile.

To displace from a position within a group or organization.

A bunny girl: a nightclub waitress who wears a costume having rabbit ears and tail.

To deprive (a passenger) of reserved travel accommodations because of overbooking.

(sports) In basketball, an easy shot (i.e., one right next to the bucket) that is missed.

To raise; boost

A menstrual pad.

(Sports) To pass (a volleyball) by redirecting it with the forearms.

A swelling from a blow; a bump.

To hit or knock against something

(mining) A sudden enlargement or mass of ore, as opposed to a vein or lode.

To proceed with jerks and jolts

A culvert or short covered drain connecting two ditches.

(Sports) To bump a volleyball.

A chine or gully formed by water running over the edge of a cliff; a wooded glen or small ravine opening through the cliff line to the sea.

A blow, collision, or jolt.

Any small drain or culvert.

The sound of something bumping

A brick arch or wooden bridge, covered with earth across a drawn or carriage in a water-meadow, just wide enough to allow a hay-wagon to pass over.

A raised or rounded spot; a bulge.

A small pool of water.

A slight swelling or lump.

Easy or unchallenging.

(Informal) See baby bump.

Resembling a bun small bread roll.

A rise or increase, as in prices or enrollment.

A great collection of ore without any vein coming into it or going out from it.

A forward thrust of the pelvis, as in a burlesque striptease.

A pet name for a rabbit or a squirrel.

(Sports) A pass in volleyball made by redirecting the ball with the inside of the forearms, especially when extended and held together.

A young waitress in a night club whose costume includes a rabbit-tail and ears

A small dose of an illegal drug, especially cocaine inhaled in powdered form.

(usually informal) especially a young rabbit

A shot of hard liquor, sometimes accompanied by a beer chaser.

A light blow or jolting collision.

The sound of such a collision.

A protuberance on a level surface.

A swelling on the skin caused by illness or injury.

(obsolete) One of the protuberances on the cranium which, in phrenology, are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind. Also the faculty itself

(rowing) The point, in a race in which boats are spaced apart at the start, at which a boat begins to overtake the boat ahead.

The swollen abdomen of a pregnant woman.

(Internet) A post in an Internet forum thread made in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

A temporary increase in a quantity, as shown in a graph.

(slang) A dose of a drug such as ketamine or cocaine, when snorted recreationally.

(preceded by definite article) A disco dance in which partners rhythmically bump each other's hips together.

In skipping, a single jump over two consecutive turns of the rope.

(uncountable) A coarse cotton fabric.

A training match for a fighting dog.

The jaw of either of the middle pockets.

Music, especially played over speakers at loud volume with strong bass frequency response.

(industrial relations) A reassignment of jobs within an organization (for example, when an existing employee leaves) on the basis of seniority.

The breeding call made by the bittern; a boom.

To knock against or run into with a jolt.

To move up or down by a step; displace.

(Internet) To post in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

To suddenly boil, causing movement of the vessel and loss of liquid.

(transitive) To move (a booked passenger) to a later flight because of earlier delays or cancellations.

(transitive) To move the time of (a scheduled event).

(transitive) To pick (a lock) with a repeated striking motion that dislodges the pins.

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise; to boom.

To spread out material so as to fill any desired number of pages.

To assassinate; to bump off.

To displace (another employee in an organization) on the basis of seniority.

To anger, irritate.

Of a bittern, to make its characteristic breeding call.

(internet) Posted in an Internet forum thread in order to raise the thread's profile by returning it to the top of the list of active threads.

To strike, as with or against anything large or solid; to thump; as, to bump the head against a wall.

To come in violent contact with something; to thump.

To make a loud, heavy, or hollow noise, as the bittern; to boom.

A thump; a heavy blow.

A swelling or prominence, resulting from a bump or blow; a protuberance.

One of the protuberances on the cranium which are associated with distinct faculties or affections of the mind; as, the bump of "veneration;" the bump of "acquisitiveness."

The act of striking the stern of the boat in advance with the prow of the boat following.

The noise made by the bittern.

A lump on the body caused by a blow

Something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from a form

An impact (as from a collision);

Knock against with force or violence;

Come upon, as if by accident; meet with;

Dance erotically or dance with the pelvis thrust forward;

Assign to a lower position; reduce in rank;

Remove or force from a position of dwelling previously occupied;