bouncerとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈbaʊn.sə/
• (General American) enPR: bounʹ-sər, IPA^(key): /ˈboʊn.sɚ/
• 韻: -aʊnsə(ɹ)
• ハイフネーション: boun‧cer

名詞

bouncer (複数形 bouncers)

1. (informal) A member of security personnel employed by bars, nightclubs, etc to maintain order and deal with patrons who cause trouble.
   • 2010, Peter Corris, Torn Apart, Allen and Unwin, page 117:

     At 199 centimetres and a hundred kilos going up, he was scary big and he found work as a bouncer and enforcer[.]

   Synonyms: doorman, chucker-out

2. (cricket) A short-pitched ball that bounces up towards, or above the height of the batsman’s head.

   Synonym: bumper

3. (Internet) An account or server (as with IRC かつ FTP) that invisibly redirects requests to another, used for anonymity or vanity.

   Synonym: BNC

4. (dated) One who bounces; a large, heavy person who makes much noise in moving.
5. (slang, archaic) A boaster; a bully.
6. Something big; a good stout example of the kind.

   Synonym: whopper

   • 1842, Thomas De Quincey, Modern Greece (published in Blackwood's Magazine)

     The stone must be a bouncer.

7. (slang, archaic) A bold lie.

   Synonym: whopper

   • 1877, W. S. Gilbert, Engaged in Original Plays, Second Series, Chatto & Windus, London, 1899, page 83:

     "… when he wants to accomplish his purpose, he does not hesitate to invent—I am not quite sure of the word, but I think it is “bouncers.”

8. (slang, archaic) A liar.
   • 1833, [Frederick Marryat], chapter XII, in Peter Simple. […], volume II, London: Saunders and Otley, […], published 1834, →OCLC, page 190:

     "Why, I'll tell you, Mr. Simple; he's a good tempered, kind fellow enough, but—" / "But what?" / "Such a bouncer!!" / "How do you mean? He's not a very stout man." / "Bless you, Mr. Simple, why don't you understand English. I mean that he's the greatest liar that ever walked a deck. […]"

9. A bouncy castle.
10. A kind of seat mounted in a framework in which a baby can bounce up and down.
    • 2019, Kevin Barry, Night Boat to Tangier, New York: Doubleday, →ISBN, page 82–83:

      He shook his head and took up the child—Dilly kicked out her feet in tiny electric jolts to the full stretch of the Babygro. […] He put the child in the bouncer again.

派生語

• baby bouncer
• shop-bouncer