bump up
verb
Forms bumps up bumping up bumped up
- verb (transitive, idiomatic) To increase something suddenly.
- verb (transitive, idiomatic) To promote a person to a higher grade.
- verb (transitive, idiomatic) To give a more prominent place to; to advance position in queue.
- verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To bump into something; to collide with something. “It bumps up on the wall here.”
- verb (intransitive, idiomatic) To figuratively collide with something; to come into conflict over something. “The legalization movement bumped up against political realities.”
- verb (transitive, television) To transfer (recorded footage) from a narrower to a wider tape format.
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