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  1. p. pr. & vb. n. of Bounce
  2. a. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom.
  3. a. Excessive; big.
  4. adj. vigorously healthy
  5. adj. marked by lively action
  6. n. rebounding from an impact (or series of impacts)
  7. 1. Stout; plump and healthy; lusty; buxom. Many tall and bouncing young ladies. Thackeray. 2. Excessive; big. "A bouncing reckoning." B. & Fl. Bouncing Bet (Bot.), the common soapwort (Saponaria officinalis). Harper's Mag.
  8. j:100 s. vigorously healthy s. marked by lively action