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bouncer en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • (Australia) audio
  • /ˈbaʊn.sə/ (Received-Pronunciation)
  • /ˈboʊn.sɚ/ (General-American)
  • bounʹ-sər (General-American)

Etymology

Etymology tree English bounce Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English bouncer From bounce + -er.

Meanings

  1. A person or thing that bounces something, such as a ball.
  2. (informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc. to decide who can enter, maintain order, and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
    • At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.] 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:
  3. A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.
    • ‘You try to hit the bouncer that you should duck under. Your bat misses it completely. The ball strikes your temple, whack!’ 1998, Kamila Shamsie, In the City by the Sea, Bloomsbury (2004), page 165:
  4. (Internet) An account or server (as with IRC and FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.
  5. (dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
    • "Why, I'll tell you, Mr. Simple; he's a good tempered, kind fellow enough, but—" / "But what?" / "Such a bouncer!!" / "How do you mean? He's not a very stout man." / "Bless you, Mr. Simple, why don't you understand English. I mean that he's the greatest liar that ever walked a deck.[…]" 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 190:
  6. (archaic, slang) A boaster; a bully.
  7. Something big; a good stout example of the kind.
    • The stone must be a bouncer. 1842, Thomas De Quincey, “Modern Greece”, in Blackwood's Magazine:
  8. (archaic, slang) A bold lie.
    • "… when he wants to accomplish his purpose, he does not hesitate to invent—I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is “bouncers.” 1877, W. S. Gilbert, “Engaged”, in Original Plays, Second Series, London: Chatto & Windus, published 1899, page 83:
  9. (archaic, slang) A liar.
    • "Why, I'll tell you, Mr. Simple; he's a good tempered, kind fellow enough, but—" / "But what?" / "Such a bouncer!!" / "How do you mean? He's not a very stout man." / "Bless you, Mr. Simple, why don't you understand English. I mean that he's the greatest liar that ever walked a deck.[…]" 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 190:
  10. A bouncy castle.
  11. A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
    • He shook his head and took up the child—Dilly kicked out her feet in tiny electric jolts to the full stretch of the Babygro.[…]He put the child in the bouncer again. 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, pages 82–83:
  12. (UK, abbreviation, alt-of, obsolete, slang) Short for shop-bouncer
    • Noting a shop where goods are piled on the counter, or within reach, a man goes in called a bouncer, and generally asks to look at some handkerchiefs, selecting a time when there is only one shopman in the way, breakfast-time for instance; whilst this is going on, a well-dressed youth comes in with a blue bag in his hand, asking for shoe-ties, or some trifling article. Now the work begins; […] 1832, Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country, volume 6, page 478:

Forms

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Deriveds

shop-bouncer · bouncerly · baby bouncer

Synonyms

whopper · BNC · bumper · chucker-out · doorman · whopper

Translations (63)

cy drysor (member of security personnel) · es cadenero (member of security personnel) · cs vyhazovač (member of security personnel) · fi eteisvahtimestari (member of security personnel) · fi poke (member of security personnel) · da dørmand (member of security personnel) · eo elĵetisto (member of security personnel) · de Rausschmeißerin (member of security personnel) · ga doirseoir slándála (member of security personnel) · pt segurança (member of security personnel) · mr बाउंसर (member of security personnel) · pl wykidajło (member of security personnel) · af uitsmyter (member of security personnel) · es gorila (member of security personnel) · es segurata (member of security personnel) · nl buitenwipper (member of security personnel) · sw baunsa (member of security personnel) · af portier (member of security personnel) · de Rausschmeißer (member of security personnel) · de Türsteherin (member of security personnel) · el ευταξίας (member of security personnel) · nrf bîndeux (member of security personnel) · ca porter (member of security personnel) · es puerta (member of security personnel) · sh избацивач (member of security personnel) · nl uitsmijter (member of security personnel) · es patovica (member of security personnel) · mk исфр́лувач (member of security personnel) · eu atezain (member of security personnel) · cy bownser (member of security personnel) · pl bramkarz (member of security personnel) · es cancerbero (member of security personnel) · fo duravørður (member of security personnel) · nl portier (member of security personnel) · nrf fliantcheux hors (member of security personnel) · ro portar (member of security personnel) · ga preabaire (member of security personnel) · sh izbacivač (member of security personnel) · fr physio (member of security personnel) · it buttafuori (member of security personnel) · hu kidobóember (member of security personnel) · hu kidobó (member of security personnel) · el πορτιέρης (member of security personnel) · fo duravaktari (member of security personnel) · sv dörrvakt (member of security personnel) · gl porteiro (member of security personnel) · es portero (member of security personnel) · cy taflwr allan (member of security personnel) · es shafo (member of security personnel) · da dørvogter (member of security personnel) · fi portsari (member of security personnel) · fr videur (member of security personnel) · es sacabullas (member of security personnel) · sv rockvaktmästare (member of security personnel) · eu diskotekako atezain (member of security personnel) · sv utkastare (member of security personnel) · ru вышиба́ла (member of security personnel) · de Türsteher (member of security personnel) · el μπράβος (member of security personnel) · mk вра́тар (member of security personnel) · fi ulosheittäjä (member of security personnel) · cy dryswr (member of security personnel) · pt leão de chácara (member of security personnel)