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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:

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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

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