bubble

A soap bubble.

Meanings

Noun

  • A spherically contained volume of air or other gas, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  • A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  • Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  • Anything lacking firmness or solidity; a cheat or fraud; an empty project.
  • A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
  • The emotional and/or physical atmosphere in which the subject is immersed.
  • An officer's station in a prison dormitory, affording views on all sides.
  • Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
  • A small, hollow, floating bead or globe, formerly used for testing the strength of spirits.
  • The globule of air in the chamber of a spirit level.
  • A laugh.
  • A Greek.
  • Any of the small magnetized areas that make up bubble memory.
  • The point in a poker tournament when the last player without a prize loses all their chips and leaves the game, leaving only players that are going to win prizes. (e.g., if the last remaining 9 players win prizes, then the point when the 10th player leaves the tournament)
  • A group of people who are in quarantine together.
  • a travel bubble

Verb

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Origin

  • Partly imitative, also influenced by burble. Compare Middle Dutch bobbe ("bubble") > Dutch bubbel ("bubble"), Low German bubbel ("bubble"), Danish boble ("bubble"), Swedish bubbla ("bubble").

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