Definition of "jounce" []

• To move or cause to move with bumps and jolts; bounce. (verb-transitive)
• A rough, jolting movement; a jolt. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "But it is in going down hill, and leaping from a "jounce" that the skier is at his best."
• "The eight occupants began to "jounce" when opposite the Orde place, and Bobby saw with admiration that this was a"
• "It looks like a left index finger rising slightly toward the sky, and right index and middle fingers coming down to curve around it and jounce up and down."