Rubber checks that bounce?

Rachel Conti rconti at STUDENT.UMASS.EDU
Tue May 8 13:27:36 UTC 2001


Oh yeah, I've also heard people being "bounced" from a disco by "bouncers."
It would seem that the term is synonomous with rejected.

OED:
b. trans. To cause to rebound. Also transf., to cause to be reflected.
c. intr. Of a cheque: to be returned to the drawer because there are
insufficient funds to meet it. Occas. trans., to present (such a cheque).
7. To come or go as unceremoniously as a tossed ball, to throw oneself with
excess of physical momentum; to burst unceremoniously into, out of.

rachel



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