bump up

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

But even a hard target will bump up against soft areas—think of the roads leading to the nuclear facility or dangers from the sky—that can make the hard target vulnerable. —Juliette Kayyem, The Atlantic, 27 Apr. 2026

But the White House is urging energy companies to bump up production right to help alleviate costs? —CBS News, 26 Apr. 2026

The decrease could have been sharper if not for inflation, which is bumping up the prices of lodging, food and goods. —Los Angeles Times, 25 Apr. 2026

That deeply constrains everything that occurs in the show’s first outing, which can’t see Mike, El, Dustin, Lucas, or Max grow as characters in ways that bump up against their arcs from the original show, or let the new addition Nikki (Odessa A’zion) become too firmly entrenched in their lives. —Wilson Chapman, IndieWire, 24 Apr. 2026

Rhymes for bump up

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