The act of protecting with bumpers, or colliding gently and repeatedly; also the practice of denying airline passengers boarding.
From 'bumper' or 'bump' as a verb, plus '-ing' progressive suffix indicating ongoing action.
Modern verbs show how business jargon gets created—'bumpering' passengers started as neutral terminology but now carries negative meaning, proving that how we say something shapes how we think about it.
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