bounce: v. 1. [common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check]
An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an
error notification to the sender is said to `bounce'. See also
bounce message. 2. [Stanford] To play volleyball. The
now-demolished D. C. Power Lab building used by the Stanford AI
Lab in the 1970s had a volleyball court on the front lawn. From 5
P.M. to 7 P.M. was the scheduled maintenance time for the computer,
so every afternoon at 5 would come over the intercom the cry: "Now
hear this: bounce, bounce!", followed by Brian McCune loudly
bouncing a volleyball on the floor outside the offices of known
volleyballers. 3. To engage in sexual intercourse; prob. from the
expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by Roo's
psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the
"Winnie-the-Pooh" books. Compare boink. 4. To casually reboot a
system in order to clear up a transient problem. Reported primarily
among VMS and Unix users. 5. [VM/CMS programmers] _Automatic_
warm-start of a machine after an error. "I logged on this morning
and found it had bounced 7 times during the night" 6. [IBM] To
power cycle a peripheral in order to reset it.
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