Bump

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

• 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

Maths and science

• Bump function, a mathematical function which has a non-empty bounded support
• Bump mapping, a computer graphics technique

Arts and entertainment

• Bump (dance), a dance from the 1970s disco era
• BUMP (comics), 2007-8 limited edition comic book series

Music

• "Bump Bump!", 2009 single from BoA
• "Bump, Bump, Bump", a 2003 single by B2K featuring P. Diddy
• "Bumped" (song), by Right Said Fred
• "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
• "Lady Bump", an international hit single by Austrian singer Penny McLean, released in 1975

Television

• Bump (British TV series), a 1990 British children's animated programme featuring an elephant
• Bump (Australian TV series), a 2021 Australian streaming television drama series
• Bump!, a Canadian gay and lesbian travel and lifestyle television series
• Bump in the Night, a mid-1990s American stop-motion animated series
• Bump, a pricing game on The Price Is Right television game show

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

Culture

• The bumps, a birthday tradition
• Elbow bump, an informal greeting where two people touch or tap elbows
• Fist bump, an informal greeting
• Baby bump, another term for pregnancy

Sport

• 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

• Bump (nickname)
• Bump (surname)

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

• All pages with titles beginning with Bump
• All pages with titles containing Bump
• Bumper (disambiguation)
• Bumping (disambiguation)

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