bounce

Naija

Etymology

From English bounce.

Pronunciation

• báùns

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Frequency

• Frequency in NSC treebank: 0
• Frequency rank in NSC treebank: inf
• Frequency in raw corpus: 28
• Frequency rank in raw corpus: 4461

Transitive Verb

• Make dem remove person.

For February, e bin look like e go step down but oga Al-Bashir call for state of emergency as e say di protesters make sense but na only elections go fit bounce am.  — (bbc__50152, __no translation__)

• Make person reject someting/person.

1. Why US dey bounce Ghanaians visa more times  — (bbc__100495, __no translation__)
2. {{ux|dv|Plenti of di pipo wey follow come na pikin and di wahala be say dem dey bounce dem say dem no get official papers. |(bbc__81964, __no

Intransitive Verb

• Make person waka wit confidence.

E dey bounce like sey im don win jackpot.  — (Egbokhare_2021, He is walking with confidence as if he won a jackpot.)

• Make we cause someting dey move up and down.

Aboudi Onguene weh e di play for CSKA Russia open door for mbunya for 13' minute as e comet laik lighten kick straight for goalkeeper but de ball bounce back for e foot and e score as Enganamouit service e ball.  — (bbc__11148, __no translation__)

• Make person turn back to attack someting or somebody.

Ehen if you push person to di wall, di person definitely go still bounce back, start to pursue you.  — (NST_cleaned__31754, __no translation__)

• Make someting come alive again.

Afta di defeat, di president tweet say di mata touch am wella but say im believe say Ghana Black Stars go bounce back.  — (bbc__12863, __no translation__)

Serial Verb

Dey don bounce dem comot.  — (Tella_NSC_2021, They have sacked them.)

Related form

• bouncer

Synonyms

• comot,sack

Antonyms

• gree,

Translations

• English: to walk with confidence.