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Definition of bump in the road
bump in the road
noun
- a hindrance in some quest or extended task.
Citation from "Media Blitz", Parks and Recreation (TV), Season 3 Episode 5 (2011) censored in hope of resolving Google's penalty against this site.It's just a bump in the road.
- See more words with the same meaning: hard, confusing, difficult, a problem.
Last edited on Jan 27 2015. Submitted by Walter Rader (Editor) from Sacramento, CA, USA on Feb 20 2011.
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Other terms relating to 'hard, confusing, difficult, a problem': | |
| Definitions include: puzzling or confusing. | |
| Definitions include: to have a difficult-to-solve problem. | |
| Definitions include: a metaphorical place suggesting a difficult situation or period of time. | |
| Definitions include: the problem. | |
| Definitions include: something especially bad. | |
| Definitions include: of no more value or no longer cool. | |
| Definitions include: An acronym has been invented for the term, but long after the term entered use: "Beautiful Intellectuals That Cause Hard-ons." | |
| Definitions include: someone or something who will die soon. | |
| Definitions include: "impossible". | |
| Definitions include: acronym of "personal problem." | |
| Definitions include: exclamation of disappointment. | |
| Definitions include: spelling variant of goner. | |
| Definitions include: in an irreparably bad situation; "out of luck"; "screwed". | |
| Definitions include: speech one doesn't understand - usually jargon specific to a particular field. | |
| Definitions include: to greatly confuse a person. | |
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Other terms relating to 'bump': | |
| Definitions include: a pregnant woman's "bump." | |
| Definitions include: a general insult or insulting retort. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
| Definitions include: full of people. | |
| Definitions include: having lesbian sex, as in bouncing titties together. | |
| Definitions include: to see someone, in an unplanned way. | |
| Definitions include: to engage in foreplay in which both (or all) participants keep their clothes on and "grind" sexually against each other. | |
| Definitions include: To have sex. | |
| Definitions include: to kill. | |
| Definitions include: to struggle to overcome. | |
| Definitions include: Talking to much, or talking crap | |
| Definitions include: a loud stereo system playing loud bass, hence bump. | |
| Definitions include: it means to ignore, let go or pay him/her no attention. | |
| Definitions include: to have sex. | |
| Definitions include: to have sexual intercourse. | |
Other terms relating to 'in': | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: involving everyone or everything. | |
| Definitions include: doing something emphatically. | |
| Definitions include: no chance. | |
| Definitions include: something easy. | |
| Definitions include: at some time before the present. | |
| Definitions include: having resumed an activity that one had previously stopped performing. | |
| Definitions include: included. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: to intrude. | |
| Definitions include: See barge in. | |
| Definitions include: To beat someone up, inflict head injury | |
| Definitions include: visible mucus in one's nostrils. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "be back in a bit", i.e. "I will return in a short amount of time." | |
Other terms relating to 'road': | |
| Definitions include: anal sex | |
| Definitions include: at some future time. | |
| Definitions include: a small road that runs along the the side of a highway or freeway. | |
| Definitions include: immediately before a person leaves a place. | |
| Definitions include: to start. | |
| Definitions include: to claim a morally superior position. | |
| Definitions include: better behavior than someone else. | |
| Definitions include: to encounter difficulties. | |
| Definitions include: to leave. | |
| Definitions include: to procrastinate. | |
| Definitions include: the anus. | |
| Definitions include: a final consumable (e.g. drink) before leaving an establishment. | |
| Definitions include: horse feces. | |
| Definitions include: best friend. | |
| Definitions include: a close friend. | |
Other terms relating to 'the': | |
| Definitions include: the real information or the proof, instruction, the know how, where, when, and why about something or someone. | |
| Definitions include: walking, generally as opposed to driving. | |
| Definitions include: interrogation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely intoxicated | |
| Definitions include: information. | |
| Definitions include: something you have now is worth more than two things you have just a chance of getting. | |
| Definitions include: a good estimate. | |
| Definitions include: a secret advantage. | |
| Definitions include: inclusive. | |
| Definitions include: to make a bad situation worse. | |
| Definitions include: with the amount of time left to finish a task rapidly disappearing. | |
| Definitions include: having an opinion or belief prior to it becoming common or popular. | |
| Definitions include: of a male, to urinate. | |
| Definitions include: Someone being butthurt over having something, they do to others regularly, done to the them | |
| Definitions include: secret sexual activity with a person other than one's partner. | |
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