jump off

jump off

1. To hop or leap off of something. The kids jumped off the platform and landed in the foam pit.
2. To begin or start. When does this party jump off? Am I early?
See also: jump, off
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

jump off (of something)

to leap off something. (Of is usually retained before pronouns.) Rachel lost her balance and jumped off the diving board instead of diving. Better to jump off than to fall off.
See also: jump, off
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

jump off

v.
1. To leap or bound off something: The parachuter jumped off the cliff.
2. To get started: The event jumped off at 3:00 this afternoon.
See also: jump, off
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • (I've) got to take off
  • (Now) where was I?
  • be off for (something)
  • be off for sth
  • bounce off the walls
  • break off
  • base off (of) (something else)
  • check off
  • be well off for (something)
  • be well off for something
References in periodicals archive
Rider Hisham Gharib won both the first and second place in the junior category with a jump off round.
Police in Chicago said yesterday they received a report from Irish officers that O'Connor had said she planned to jump off a bridge in the US city.
In 2014, Oman police saved a 22 year-old Omani national when he tried to jump off Al Khoudh Bridge, north of the capital Muscat.
Class 4 -- One Round with Jump Off 70/80cm: 1st Aimee Keen Rio 2nd Andrea Puciarelli Piso 3rd Idrak Alaquel Ecco 4th Ulrike Niedermeier Skinny 5th Romy Moussallem Maggie
Summary: Daredevils BASE jump off the world's highest bridge in China.
POLICE closed off part of the M58 at Skelmersdale yesterday while they helped a woman who was threatening to jump off a bridge.
Quantum's fundraisers joined 200 others to jump off the 59-metre high Tyne Bridge on a zip-wire, reaching speeds of up to 30 milesan-hour before landing at HMS Calliope in Gateshead.
Rohan Vos, managing director of the train company who was on board, said: "I screamed at the others to tell them to jump off. I jumped off while it was moving." The Rovos Rail trip with 59 passengers had begun in Cape Town and was close to its destination in South Africa's capital when it stopped for what is usually a routine change from an electric to a steam locomotive.
Riding in the Mini Grand Prix, a 1m.30cm - one round and jump off class, Shaikh Hassan bin Rashid came 11th against sixty two riders.
The six were then to jump off against the clock against each other to decide the overall winner.
He told punters at a Llandudno pub he was going to jump off the resort's mountain.
He would barely get 10 feet, and then just jump off and slide.
He explains that LNT works something like this: suppose we learned from studies that when 100 people jump off a 100-foot tower, all 100 people die.
This article, which originally appeared in the August, 2006 Employment Law Committee newsletter, discusses the "jump off and slap you" standard.
FLORENCE - Her friends told her to jump off a bridge, and so she did it.