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Bounce (golf), a term referring to the shape of the head on certain golf clubs Bounce (jump), a type of fence in equestrian events Ball-up, or bounce, a method of restarting play in Australian rules football
Local bounce practitioners attribute the term to a contraction of "to work" ("t'work"; or, spelled as it's pronounced, "twerk"). [14] [15] The Oxford English Dictionary defines an early 19th-century use of the word as a blend of "twist" (or "twitch") and "jerk", which was reported by the BBC in conjunction with the black cultural context. [16]
Bounce music is a style of New Orleans hip hop music that is said to have originated as early as the late 1980s in the city's housing projects. [1] Popular bounce artists have included DJ Jubilee , Partners-N-Crime , Magnolia Shorty and Big Freedia .
Stot is a common Scots and Northern English verb meaning "bounce" or "walk with a bounce". [1] Uses in this sense include stotting a ball off a wall, and rain stotting off a pavement. Pronking comes from the Afrikaans verb pronk-, which means "show off" or "strut", and is a cognate of the English verb "prance". [2]
A ricochet (/ ˈ r ɪ k ə ʃ eɪ / RIK-ə-shay; French:) is a rebound, bounce, or skip off a surface, particularly in the case of a projectile. Most ricochets are caused by accident and while the force of the deflection decelerates the projectile, it can still be energetic and almost as dangerous as before the deflection.
The Oxford English Dictionary defined dap in part as follows: "daps" meaning "ways, modes of action"; hence in dialect, "likeness, image". A dap can be a bounce of a ball, etc. Correspondingly, as a verb, "dap" or "dape", is apparently parallel to "dab", the final "p" expressing a lighter touch.
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The bounce of an oval-shaped ball (such as those used in gridiron football or rugby football) is in general much less predictable than the bounce of a spherical ball. Depending on the ball's alignment at impact, the normal force can act ahead or behind the centre of mass of the ball, and friction from the ground will depend on the alignment of ...