bump-out

plural bump-outs · alternative bumpout

1. AustraliaThe process of moving sets and equipment out of an event venue, such as a theatre or conference centre, after an event or performance.

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   One company in particular, TAE, also played to tens of thousands of schools students in the Northern Territory and Queensland.[…]By the end of 1999, after years of hard yakka and a few too many bump-ins and outs, some full time company members were growing tired - including of being permanently ‘broke’.

   2005, Gunduz Kalic, “Taking Liberties”, in Peter Billingham, editor, Radical Initiatives in Interventionist and Community Drama, page 82

   In the event industry there are two critical times when safety is often compromised, at bump-in and at bump-out. At bump-in the organizer is usually pressed for time and it is not uncommon for installers to work around the clock. At the end of the show or exhibition, bump-out carries an even higher risk as everyone is exhausted.

   2014, Lynn Van Der Wagen, Lauren White, Human Resource Management for the Event Industry, page 110

   Antonyms: bump-in

2. A small extension to a house, often involving the expansion of an existing room.
3. A small protrusion in the middle of a wall.
4. engineeringA curb extension.