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1. A spherically contained volume of air, especially one made from soapy liquid.
2. A small spherical cavity in a solid material.
3. Anything resembling a hollow sphere.
4. A period of intense speculation in a market, causing prices to rise quickly to irrational levels as the metaphorical bubble expands, and then fall even more quickly as the bubble bursts.
5. Someone who has been ‘bubbled’ or fooled; a dupe.
   • 1749, Henry Fielding, Tom Jones, Folio Society 1979, p. 15:

     For no woman, sure, will plead the passion of love for an excuse. This would be to own herself the mere tool and bubble of the man.

Bubble or Bubbles may also refer to:

Contents 1 Physical bubbles 2 Arts and literature 3 Astronomy 4 Economics 5 Film 6 Music 7 Television 8 Video games 9 People and animals 10 Other 11 See also

Physical bubbles

• Liquid bubble, globule of one substance encased in another, usually air in a liquid
• Soap bubble, a bubble formed by soapy water (a thin film of liquid)
• Antibubble, a droplet of liquid surrounded by a thin film of gas

Arts and literature

• Bubbles (painting), a painting by Sir John Everett Millais, also used to market Pears soap
• Bubbles Yablonsky, the protagonist in a series of mystery novels
• Speech balloon or speech bubble, a graphic convention used primarily in comics and cartoons

Astronomy

• Local Bubble, the cavity which contains the Solar System
• Bubble Nebula (NGC 6822), an emission nebula in Barnard's Galaxy
• NGC 7635 (also known as the Bubble Nebula), an emission nebula in the Milky Way galaxy
• Stellar wind bubble, a large cavity in the interstellar medium created by a star's energy
• Superbubble, a large structure created by multiple gases

Economics

• Economic bubble, a situation where market prices are unsustainable
  • Dot-com bubble, a specific economic bubble in the 1990s
  • Real Estate/Housing bubble, economic bubble involving unsustainably valued property
  • Stock market bubble, an economic bubble involving over-valued stock
  • Tulip bubble, an economic bubble in the 1630s and a metaphor for other economic bubbles

Film

• Bubbles, a 1930 short film featuring a pre-stardom Judy Garland
• The Bubble (1966 film), a science fiction film
• Bubble (film), a 2006 improvised thriller directed by Stephen Soderbergh
• The Bubble (2006 film), an Israeli drama about a gay romance
• Bubbles, a character in the 2003 film Finding Nemo

Music

• "Bubbles" (Biffy Clyro song), a 2009 song by Biffy Clyro
• "Bubbles", a song by System of a Down from Steal This Album!
• Bubbles, a record label owned by Erlend Øye and Marcin Oz of The Whitest Boy Alive

Television

• The Bubble (UK TV series), a BBC comedy programme hosted by David Mitchell
• Bubble, a character in the TV series Absolutely Fabulous
• Bubbles, a character in the animated TV series Jabberjaw
• Bubbles (The Powerpuff Girls), a character in The Powerpuff Girls
• Bubbles (Trailer Park Boys character)
• Bubbles (The Wire), a character from the HBO series The Wire
• Bubbles the Clown, a doll used in the BBC's Test Card F
• Bubbles DeVere, a character in the TV series Little Britain
• Bubbles (The Adventures of Little Carp), an anthropomorphic fish from The Adventures of Little Carp
• Bubbles, a contestant on Real Chance of Love season 1 and Charm School 3
• Dirty Bubble, one of mermaid man's enemies in SpongeBob SquarePants

Video games

• Bubble Ghost (video game)
• Bubbles (video game)
• The main character in the video game Clu Clu Land
• Bubble, an enemy in The Legend of Zelda series

People and animals

• Bubble Boy (disambiguation), (or 'boy in the bubble'), colloquialism used to describe a person who must live in a sterile environment for medical reasons
• Bubble Eye, a variety of goldfish
• Bubbles (chimpanzee), a chimpanzee who lived with Michael Jackson
• Pamela Harmsworth, Viscountess Rothermere (1933–1992), an English socialite and actress
• William Milbourne James (1881–1974), the child model for the painting and soap advertisement Bubbles
• Beverly Sills (1929–2007), opera singer

Other

• Bubble (computing), a delay in pipeline
• Champagne (wine), sparkling wine or Champagne, colloquially known as bubbles
• Bubbles (band), a Swedish girl group
• Bubble Act, an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain requiring all joint-stock companies to have a Royal Charter
• Bubble and squeak, a traditional English vegetable dish; usually based on mashed potatoes and "left over" vegetables
• Bubble chamber, a particle detector in physics
• Bubble Wrap, a packaging material
• Hi-Riser (automobile), a sedan customized by increasing the ground clearance and adding large-diameter wheels
• Carbonation, the process of adding bubbles to soft drinks
• Westminster Bubble, a term used to describe isolation among United Kingdom government employees
• Bubble, the nickname for the helmet logo of the Detroit Lions
• Bubble, a symbol used in logic gate diagrams
• Bubble, a term used in poker tournaments
• Bubble, a term used in selecting the field for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship or NCAA Women's Division I Basketball Championship
• Bubble, a term used to describe interpersonal space

See also

• Bulla (disambiguation), Latin for "bubble"
• Bub (disambiguation)
• Bubb (disambiguation)