bump n.2
1. (US) a raise, a promotion.
![[US]](/static/img/flags/us.png "United States") | New Yorker 5 Nov. 87: Leave him do a couple pitchas and I guarantee you I’ll get him a bump [HDAS]. | |
| (con. 1943) Big War 129: You got a bump to sergeant last night. | |
| , | | DAS. |
| Snitch Jacket 141: Captain’s rank is a twenty-grand pay bump. | |
| ‘The San Diego Zoo’ in Broken 130: He’ll never get the bump to Robbery now. |
2. (US) the female breast, usu. in pl.
 | Anat. Murder 64: Good bumps, too. Boy, oh boy, like...Marilyn Monroe [HDAS]. |
3. (US) a bonus.
| Nature Girl 75: Two hundred extra a week, plus commission bumps. |
In phrases
(US) silent, obdurate or inarticulate.
| Gallipolis Jrnl (OH) 1 June 3/3: There sat a big darkey, like a ‘bump on a log’. | |
| Louisville Courier (KY) 3 May 1/3: It will not, like the Democrat, sit like a bump on a log without doing anything. | |
| Detroit Free Press 14 Nov. 2/3: He has sat around the committee-room, like a bump on a log, throwing cold water on enthusiasm. | |
| Pittsburgh Press (PA) 26 Dec. 3/3: I’d sit like a bump on a log through life, / And I wouldn’t do anything rash. | |
| Pittsburgh Press (PA) 17 Apr. 20/6: ‘When she got started abusing me [...] I would sit quiet, just like a bump on a log’. | |
| (con. 1900s) Elmer Gantry 113: Kind of a nice-looking young fella, but dumm in the head. Stands there like a bump on a log. | |
![[Can]](/static/img/flags/can.png "Canada") | Winnipeg Trib. 11 Apr. 37/8: ‘I don’t think it was particularly wonderful to sit up there like a bump on a log’. | |
| Freckles & His Friends 16 Nov. [syndic. comic] Listen kid, don’t sit there like a bump on a log. | |
| Phila. Inquirer (PA) 28 Feb. 32/3: ‘She just sets there like a bump on a log, sayin’ she’ll marry Cal, come hell or high water’. | |
| Detroit Free Press 9 Oct. 6/4: They don’t want to sit around like a bump on a log and do nothing. | |
| Hope Star (AR) 11 Jan. 3/5: [He] just sat like a bump on a log, watching TV. | |
| Albuqerque Jrnl (NM) 13 July 9/2: ‘I sat alone in a corner like a bump on a log’. | |
| Pittsburgh Post-Gaz. 18 June 14/5: ‘He asks every good-looking woman in the place to dance, while I sit alone like a bump on a log’. | |
| (con. 1949) Big Blowdown (1999) 200: Don’t be such a bump on a log, Pete. | |
| Trailsman [ebook] Why are you standing there like a bump on a log. | |
| Reluctant Warrior 29: ‘I seen you sitting there on the hay bale like a bump on a log. You got to move’. |