What does bump-start mean?

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bump-start

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.97 in modern English

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bump-starts (present, singular) bump-starting (participle, present) bump-started (participle, past) bump-started (past) bump-starts (plural)

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