SLANG
Leaving quicklybounce
Hip-hop era · 1990–2015 · Millennials
To leave a place quickly.
“It's late, I'm about to bounce.”
- Region
- United States
- Subculture
- Hip-hop
- Canonical key
- bounce
Learn more
- Green's Dictionary of Slang — Jonathon Green
Connected expressions
Predecessor · 1950–1989
make like a tree and leaveMid-century joke exits give way to compact verbs.
Predecessor · 2005–2026
dip"Bounce" precedes "dip" in the same exit-slang lineage.
Used in parallel · 2005–2026
dipUsed interchangeably in overlapping years.
