"bounce off" meaning in English

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      "form": "bounces off",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "bouncing off",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    {
      "form": "bounced off",
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        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "bounced off",
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        "past"
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "pos": "verb",
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        {
          "text": "I have a plan to bounce off you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Let me bounce an idea off you.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To test (ideas) on someone."
      ],
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        [
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To test (ideas) on someone."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "informal",
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1981 August 29, Nancy Wechsler, “Pornography and the Lawyers Guild”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 7, page 4:",
          "text": "My comments about the resolutions come after Pat and Gayle have explained their objections and talked about what they think their effects will be. My remark is bouncing off of what they said, feeding it back to them in an attempt to continue the flow off the interview.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To use as a springboard for further discussion."
      ],
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        [
          "springboard",
          "springboard"
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      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To use as a springboard for further discussion."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    },
    {
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She bounced off out of the room.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move away with a bouncing movement."
      ],
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          "move"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To move away with a bouncing movement."
      ],
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        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "derived": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 15 85",
          "word": "bounce off the walls"
        }
      ],
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        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, off."
      ],
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      "links": [
        [
          "bounce",
          "bounce#English"
        ],
        [
          "off",
          "off#English"
        ]
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "_dis1": "0 0 15 85",
          "word": "run by"
        }
      ]
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    {
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "bouncing off",
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        "participle",
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    {
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    {
      "form": "bounced off",
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        {
          "text": "I have a plan to bounce off you.",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "text": "Let me bounce an idea off you.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
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        "To test (ideas) on someone."
      ],
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        "(transitive, informal, idiomatic) To test (ideas) on someone."
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        {
          "ref": "1981 August 29, Nancy Wechsler, “Pornography and the Lawyers Guild”, in Gay Community News, volume 9, number 7, page 4:",
          "text": "My comments about the resolutions come after Pat and Gayle have explained their objections and talked about what they think their effects will be. My remark is bouncing off of what they said, feeding it back to them in an attempt to continue the flow off the interview.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To use as a springboard for further discussion."
      ],
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        [
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      ],
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        "(transitive) To use as a springboard for further discussion."
      ],
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        "transitive"
      ]
    },
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      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "She bounced off out of the room.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To move away with a bouncing movement."
      ],
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(intransitive) To move away with a bouncing movement."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "intransitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see bounce, off."
      ],
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        [
          "bounce",
          "bounce#English"
        ],
        [
          "off",
          "off#English"
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