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bumping across

bumping across is the present participle and gerund of bump across.

Meaning of bump across

Verb

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

  1. (Australia, slang, transitive) Synonym of bump into.
    Synonyms:
    bump into

Questions about bumping across

What is bumping across the present participle and gerund of?
Bumping across is the present participle and gerund of bump across.

Words near bumping across in the dictionary

  1. bumpily
  2. bumpin'
  3. bumpiness
  4. bumpinesses
  5. bumping
  6. bumping across
  7. bumping and grinding
  8. bumping elbows
  9. bumping nasties
  10. bumping off
  11. bumping on

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bumping across (page history and authors); bump across (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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