bump into

Verb

bump into (third-person singular simple present bumps into, present participle bumping into, simple past and past participle bumped into)

1. (intransitive, literally) To collide with.
   • He bumped into the wall. I guess that's a risk you take when you read while walking.
   • Luke staggered blindly down the street, almost bumping into an old woman in black with a shawl drawn close about her head and shoulders[…]2010, Anne Baker, Goodbye Liverpool
2. (literally, transitive) To cause (a thing) to collide with.
   • The roads were so slippery that I couldn't stop, and I bumped my car into the car in front of me.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To meet by chance.
   • We bumped into each other at the library yesterday.
   • “[...] Isaac! You’re being conscripted.” Fay Lie grabs Isaac Sachs’s elbow. “You’ll remember bumping into Luisa Rey the other day?”
     “I’m one lucky conscript. Hi, Luisa, again.”2004, David Mitchell, “Half-Lives: The First Luisa Rey Mystery”, in Cloud Atlas, →ISBN, page 130

   Synonyms:

   run into