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bump-outs

bump-outs is the plural of bump-out.

Meaning of bump-out

Noun

bump-out (plural bump-outs)

  1. (Australia) The process of moving sets and equipment out of an event venue, such as a theatre or conference centre, after an event or performance.
    • One company in particular, TAE, also played to tens of thousands of schools students in the Northern Territory and Queensland.[…]By the end of 1999, after years of hard yakka and a few too many bump-ins and outs, some full time company members were growing tired - including of being permanently...2005, Gunduz Kalic, “Taking Liberties”, in Peter Billingham, editor, Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama, page 82
    Antonyms:
    bump-in
  2. A small extension to a house, often involving the expansion of an existing room.
  3. A small protrusion in the middle of a wall.
  4. A curb extension.

Questions about bump-outs

What is bump-outs the plural of?
Bump-outs is the plural of bump-out.

Words near bump-outs in the dictionary

  1. bump-mapped
  2. bump-n'-grind
  3. bump-off
  4. bump-offs
  5. bump-out
  6. bump-outs
  7. bump-start
  8. bump-started
  9. bump-starting
  10. bump-starts
  11. bump-stock

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