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fistbump

noun, verb

fistbump is a noun meaning “Alternative form of fist bump” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled F-I-S-T-B-U-M-P, and it appears about once in every 27 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of fistbump is fistbumps.

What does fistbump mean?

noun

  1. 1

    Alternative form of fist bump.

verb

  1. 1

    To bump fists in greeting or celebration.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Forms of fistbump

  • fistbumps plural, present, singular, he/she/it
  • fistbumping participle, present
  • fistbumped participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

How common is fistbump?

Fistbump appears about once in every 27 million words in written English, the 157,761st most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Where does fistbump come from?

From fist + bump.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).