bubble
- Noun. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
- Noun. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
- Noun. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
- Noun. (economics) 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.
- Noun. (obsolete) Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
- Noun. (figuratively) a feverish upwelling.
- Noun. (figuratively) a feverish surge of speculation in a financial market, usually followed by a market crash (eg the w:South Sea Bubble).
- Noun. (Cockney rhyming slang) a Greek (''also:'' bubble and squeak).
- Verb. (intransitive) To produce bubbles, to rise up in bubbles (such in foods cooking).
- Verb. (transitive, archaic) To cheat, delude.
- Verb. (intransitive, Scotland) To cry, weep.
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