bump up

Verb

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

1. (idiomatic, transitive) To increase something suddenly.
2. (idiomatic, transitive) To promote a person to a higher grade.
3. (idiomatic, transitive) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.
4. (idiomatic, intransitive) To bump into something; to collide with something.
   • It bumps up on the wall here.
5. (idiomatic, intransitive) To figuratively collide with something; to come into conflict over something.
   • The legalization movement bumped up against political realities.
   • The program is bumping up on its fiscal cap.
6. (transitive) To transfer (recorded footage) from a narrower to a wider tape format.

   Antonyms:

   bump down