bump up

phrasal verb

bumped up; bumping up; bumps up

informal

: to move (something or someone) to a higher level, position, rank, etc.

Prices are being bumped up.

They're bumping her up to district manager.

Examples of bump up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Velasquez was set to be eligible for parole in March 2026, though California prison records indicate it was later bumped up to February. —Matt Moret, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2026

The Crew-12 mission was bumped up a few days so the astronauts can get to an understaffed space station after the mission's Crew-11 predecessors were medically evacuated in mid-January. —Eric Lagatta, USA Today, 11 Feb. 2026

Don't forget to apply a volumizing root-lifting powder and slightly bump up hair at the crown for a fuller-looking mane. —Audrey Noble, InStyle, 10 Feb. 2026

The company has emphasized that while the model was a bump up in coding performance, serious cybersecurity risks come with those gains. —Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 6 Feb. 2026

Rhymes for bump up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup