🤕 A person hit ✈️ A denied passenger

bumpee

1 9.6

A person who is denied a seat or reservation on a flight because of overbooking

noun

Jargon

: denegado

She was a bumpee on the flight to New York.

Examples

The airline offered compensation to every bumpee who missed their original flight.
Event organizers apologized to each bumpee affected by the last-minute changes.
As a bumpee, he had to wait several hours for the next available seat.
Many bumpees were left waiting at the airport.
The airline offered compensation to every bumpee who missed their original flight.
As a bumpee, he had to wait several hours for the next available seat.
Event organizers apologized to each bumpee affected by the last-minute changes.

Antonyms

boarding

101 1.0

The act of getting onto a plane, ship, or bus before it leaves

Surface Forms

bumpee singular

bumpees plural

Morphology

bumpee = bump (transparent) = bump + ee

The sense 'person who is denied boarding / displaced' is a context-specific application of 'to bump' (to remove or displace) plus '-ee', which learners can infer from similar nouns.

Etymology

The word bumpee comes from bump meaning 'to move or remove someone' and the ending -ee that means 'the one who receives an action', as in employee. That's why a bumpee is a person who is moved off a flight or loses a seat because of overbooking.