Ellen, who are you fooling?
Based on...?
You overly inflated a stock price of a company that was a piece of garbage. I don't care what you call it. It's pumping!
You have done what I have done, in a different way, and you know it.
But you ain't gonna admit it, huh?
You have pumped. I know it. You know it. And the good people of Guam know it.
pump (pùmp) noun
1.A machine or device for raising, compressing, or transferring fluids.
2.Physiology. A molecular mechanism for the active transport of ions or molecules across a cell membrane.
3.Physics. Electromagnetic radiation used to raise atoms or molecules to a higher energy level.
verb
pumped, pumping, pumps verb, transitive
1.To raise or cause to flow by means of a pump.
2.To draw, deliver, or pour forth as if with a pump: pumped new life into the economy.
3.To remove the water from: pump out a flooded basement.
4.To cause to move with the up-and-down motion of a pump handle: a bicyclist pumping the pedals.
5.To propel, eject, or insert with or as if with a pump.
6.Physics. To raise (atoms or molecules) to a higher energy level by exposing them to electromagnetic radiation at a resonant frequency.
7.Physiology. To transport (ions or molecules) against a concentration gradient by the expenditure of chemically stored energy.
8.To question closely or persistently: pump a witness for secret information.
verb, intransitive
1.To operate a pump.
2.To raise or move gas or liquid with a pump.
3.To move up and down in the manner of a pump handle.
- phrasal verb.
pump up
1.To inflate with gas by means of a pump: pump up a tire.
2.Slang. To fill with enthusiasm, strength, and energy: The lively debate really pumped us up.
3.Sports. To be actively involved in a bodybuilding program: I saw him pumping up at the gym.
- idiom.
pump iron Sports.
To lift weights.
[Middle English pumpe.]
- pump'er noun
Excerpted from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Third Edition © 1996 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Electronic version licensed from INSO Corporation; further reproduction and distribution in accordance with the Copyright Law of the United States. All rights reserved.
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