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ghost bump en · NOUN

Etymology

From ghost + bump, modelled after goosebump.

Meanings

1. A goosebump, especially when caused by anything ghostly or ghastly.
   • Her son even had goose bumps (or more accurately in this case, ghost bumps). 2002, Kimberly Molto, True Tales of the Paranormal:
   • The weather turned so frigid Luke got ghost bumps. 1986, Michael J. Pellowski, Ghost Toasties:
   • You might say they give us ghostbumps. 2012, Leonard R. N. Ashley, Halloween, page 90:
   • These were ghost bumps — the prickly bumps on my skin that often showed up when a ghost was about to appear. 1996, Linda Joy Singleton, Babysitter Beware, page 8:

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