bounce

[common; perhaps by analogy to a bouncing check] An electronic mail message that is undeliverable and returns an error notification to the sender is said to bounce. See also {bounce message}.
To engage in sexual intercourse; prob.: from the expression `bouncing the mattress', but influenced by Roo's psychosexually loaded "Try bouncing me, Tigger!" from the Winnie-the-Pooh books. Compare {boink}.
To casually reboot a system in order to clear up a transient problem (possibly editing a configuration file in the process, if it is one that is only re-read at boot time). Reported primarily among {VMS} and {Unix} users.
[VM/CMS programmers] Automatic warm-start of a machine after an error. "I logged on this morning and found it had bounced 7 times during the night"
[IBM] To {power cycle} a peripheral in order to reset it.