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bounce: v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic
mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the
sender is said to bounce. See also
bounce message. 2. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.: from the expression
‘bouncing the mattress’, but influenced by Roo's psychosexually
loaded “Try bouncing me, Tigger!” from the
Winnie-the-Pooh books. Compare
boink. 3. To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient
problem (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one
that is only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among
VMS and Unix users. 4. [VM/CMS programmers] Automatic warm-start
of a machine after an error. “I logged on this morning and found it
had bounced 7 times during the night” 6. [IBM] To power cycle a peripheral in order
to reset it.
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