bubble : Idioms & Phrases


air bubble

  • noun a bubble of air
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bubble and squeak

  • noun leftover cabbage fried with cooked potatoes and sometimes meat
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bubble bath

  • noun a bath in which you add something to foam and scent the bath water
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bubble chamber

  • noun an instrument that records the tracks of ionizing particles
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bubble dance

  • noun a solo dance similar to a fan dance except large balloons are used instead of fans
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bubble gum

  • noun a kind of chewing gum that can be blown into bubbles
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bubble gum dermatitis

  • noun an allergic contact dermatitis developed around the lips of children who chew bubble gum
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bubble jet printer

  • noun a kind of ink-jet printer
    bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
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bubble over

  • verb overflow with a certain feeling
    spill over; overflow.
    • The children bubbled over with joy
    • My boss was bubbling over with anger
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bubble pack

  • noun packaging in which a product is sealed between a cardboard backing and clear plastic cover
    blister pack.
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bubble shell

  • noun marine gastropod mollusk having a very small thin shell
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Bub"ble shell`
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  1. (Zoöl.) A marine univalve shell of the genus Bulla and allied genera, belonging to the Tectibranchiata.
Webster 1913

bubble up

  • verb move upwards in bubbles, as from the effect of heating; also used metaphorically
    intumesce.
    • Gases bubbled up from the earth
    • Marx's ideas have bubbled up in many places in Latin America
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bubble-jet printer

  • noun a kind of ink-jet printer
    bubble jet printer; bubblejet.
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bubbling jock

Bub"bling Jock`
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  1. (Zoöl.) The male wild turkey, the gobbler; -- so called in allusion to its notes.
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form bubbles

  • verb become bubbly or frothy or foaming
    froth; foam; effervesce; sparkle; fizz.
    • The boiling soup was frothing
    • The river was foaming
    • Sparkling water
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hubble-bubble

  • noun an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube connected to a container where the smoke is cooled by passing through water
    sheesha; kalian; hubbly-bubbly; nargileh; hookah; water pipe; calean; shisha; chicha; narghile.
    • a bipolar world with the hookah and Turkish coffee versus hamburgers and Coca Cola
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Hub"ble-bub`ble noun
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  1. A tobacco pipe, so arranged that the smoke passes through water, making a bubbling noise, whence its name. In India, the bulb containing the water is often a cocoanut shell. = water pipe; hookah
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magnetic bubble memory

  • noun a nonvolatile storage device that holds information in the form of bubbles on a thin film of magnetic silicate; no longer used in most computers
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Soap bubble

  • noun a bubble formed by a thin soap film
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  • a hollow iridescent globe, formed by blowing a film of soap suds from a pipe; figuratively, something attractive, but extremely unsubstantial.
    This soap bubble of the metaphysicians. J. C. Shairp.
Webster 1913