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Meaning:

Noun:

  • Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
  • 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.
  • A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
  • A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
  • obsolete Someone who has been ?bubbled? or fooled; a dupe.

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Verb:

  • Scotland|and|Northern England To cry, weep.
  • intransitive To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
  • archaic To cheat, delude.

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