How to pronounce bulge

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What bulge means

verb

To swell out in a round lump

In a sentence: My backpack started to bulge when I stuffed in all my library books.

Where it comes from: Long ago it was a word for a leather bag or a hump. It goes back to the Latin word bulga, meaning "leather sack."

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