bouncer
Americannoun
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bouncers
plural
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a person or thing that bounces.
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a person who is employed at a bar, nightclub, etc., to eject disorderly persons.
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something large of its kind.
noun
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slang a person employed at a club, pub, disco, etc, to throw out drunks or troublemakers and stop those considered undesirable from entering
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slang a dishonoured cheque
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cricket another word for bumper 1
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a person or thing that bounces
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Etymology
Origin of bouncer
Example Sentences
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The next night he came prepared with his passport but still got turned away by the bouncer at the West End sports bar Sullivan’s Tap.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Andy Pages chopped a slow bouncer up the middle, and Turner charged.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 21, 2026
Det insp Emma Gardner, 46, of North Wales Police, passed information on to the man who had been a bouncer and accessed police logs related to him.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
“The Scottish men I ran into in Boston were SO respectful and nice that it actually made me remember what it’s like to not have to be my own bouncer in public,” read one.
From Salon ● Jun. 24, 2026
I was going to ask the bouncer whether he knew Antoine LeMaire, but that seemed like the wrong move.
From "Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel" by Harlan Coben
This would allow the bouncers to be seen on camera checking an ID even while letting people slip past anyway.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
Fisher stood up to New Zealand's bouncers and occasionally carved through the covers for a 76-ball half-century that was given a huge reception by the crowd on his home ground.
From BBC ● Jun. 19, 2026
"Then you have to prop it up with junior artistes, which is an additional expenditure besides catering, electricity, vanity vans and bouncers."
From Barron's ● Jun. 2, 2026
Smith became visibly angry when describing a billboard in the county promoting ICE as “the bouncers of America.”
From Slate ● May 4, 2026
The bouncers reached out and lunged, but I was already in the air, falling sweetly to freedom.
From "Flush" by Carl Hiaasen
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