get a bump—
1. get a swelling on one’s body as a result of a blow:
- My poor dad hit the branch with his head and got a bump and a cut.
2. (of a vehicle) be hit by another vehicle, etc.:
- Her car got three severe bumps while parked in London.
make a bump—(UK Universities boat races) “bump” another boat as a proof of overtaking it:
- The best coxswain cannot make a bump, unless his boat can overlap the other!