bump up

phrasal verb

bumped up; bumping up; bumps up

informal

: to move (something or someone) to a higher level, position, rank, etc.

Prices are being bumped up.

They're bumping her up to district manager.

Examples of bump up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Awkwardly, the update schedule is already bumping up against Android 16’s release, and so attention will immediately turn to One UI 8, in the hope that’s a much quicker process. —Zak Doffman, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025

Every young feminist, at some point, bumps up against the limits of her ideals. —Sophia Stewart, The Atlantic, 18 Mar. 2025

Unlike Trump’s Wednesday reprieve to automakers, which bumped up stocks, investors weren’t relieved this time. —Yeo Boon Ping, CNBC, 7 Mar. 2025

With only so much money to go around before the Cowboys will bump up against the $279.2 million salary cap for 2025, it is expected that Dowdle and Golston could land bigger deals elsewhere. —Nick Harris, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 28 Feb. 2025

Rhymes for bump up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup