bumping

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of bump

adj

1. (informal)Rocking, excellent, great.

noun

1. The sound or action of a bump.

   “There was nothing to be seen, but he could hear loud thumpings and bumpings which seemed to come from the back of the house.”

2. (physical)The violent boiling when a homogeneous liquid is superheated to the point that the bubbles are formed at pressure greater than atmospheric pressure and be expelled from the container
3. (form-of)Form of racing for coxed fours traditional at Oxford and Cambridge Universities; bumps race

   “He listened, and with respect too, to Mr. Foker’s accounts of what the men did at the University of which Mr. F. was an ornament, and encountered a long series of stories about boat-racing, bumping, College grass-plats, and milk-punch—and began to wish to go up himself to College to a place where there were such manly pleasures and enjoyments.”