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bounces around

bounces around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bounce around.

Meaning of bounce around

Verb

bounce around (third-person singular simple present bounces around, present participle bouncing around, simple past and past participle bounced around)

  1. (transitive) To discuss or brainstorm (ideas) on a topic.
    • We bounced around some suggestions in-house and then workshopped the best ones afterward.
  2. (intransitive) Synonym of jump around.
    Synonyms:
    jump around
  3. (figuratively, intransitive) To switch between jobs, locations and other situations often.
    • He was a grinder operator for years. He bounced around for a while because the small shops kept going under.

Questions about bounces around

What is bounces around the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Bounces around is the third-person singular simple present indicative of bounce around.

Words near bounces around in the dictionary

  1. bouncelessness
  2. bouncer
  3. bouncerly
  4. bouncers
  5. bounces
  6. bounces around
  7. bounces back
  8. bounces in
  9. bounces into
  10. bounces off
  11. bounces off the walls

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bounces around (page history and authors); bounce around (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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