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jump noun- an act of sexual intercourse US, 1931
- Everybody cleared out, I left, it wasn’t fifteen minutes after you did, Benavides went in a bedroom there with the broad, gave her a jump, that was it. — Elmore Leonard, Glitz, p. 139, 1985
- Or, Buddy brought her for Foley and he was so horny he couldn’t wait, gave her a jump in the trunk of the car. — Elmore Leonard, Out of Sight, p. 55, 1996
- I was just showering your mother’s stink off me after I gave her a quick jump and sent her home. — Kevin Smith, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, p. 17, 2001
- a thrill UK
- So maybe I’m one of these twats that’s just given to nostalgia. Maybe I am, but I swear the sight of that pub will always give myself a jump. — Kevin Sampson, Outlaws, p. 7, 2001
- a party, especially a party with music US, 1954
- You meet your boys and make it to a jump, where you can break night dancing. — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 58, 1967
- the start US, 1848
- In fact, he sincerely believed that she’d known from the jump what he’d eventually ask her to do. — Nathan Heard, Howard Street, p. 166, 1968
- I mounted her and asked her to fit the pipe and as always it was a bit tight from the jump. — A.S. Jackson, Gentleman Pimp, p. 109, 1973
- She was fascinating to watch and she and I got along splendidly from the jump, the first night I was up there. — Herbert Huncke, Guilty of Everything, p. 127, 1990
- the beginning of a horse race AUSTRALIA
- On the day of the rave the Coletti family led the charge at the bagmen causing the horse’s price to tumble from six-to-one to evens, before easing slightly before the jump to five-to-four. — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 42, 1988
- in prison, an unexpected attack UK
- — Home Office, Glossary of Terms and Slang Common in Penal Establishments, July 1978
- in the entertainment industry, a move in between engagements, especially by rail US, 1916
- With a seven-hundred-mile jump there was no time to waste on roadside repairs[.] — Gypsy Rose Lee, Gypsy, p. 234, 1957
- No matter how far the jumps between one-nighters, or how remote the town, she was there, ready for the night’s musical adventure. — Ross Russell, The Sound, p. 82, 1961
- — Joe McKennon, Circus Lingo, p. 52, 1980
- — Gene Sorrows, All About Carnivals, p. 20, 1985: “Terminology”
- the bar in a public house or other licensed premises AUSTRALIA, 1978
Following the notion that you have to jump to get attention; alternatively, it’s what you have to jump over to get a free beer. - He clocked the guy leaving his credit card behind the jump for the duration. That evening Chelsea won and it was all back to the hotel bar [...] “My Diners’ Club card is with reception,” he said. — Martin King and Martin Knight, The Naughty Nineties, p. 108, 1999
- I’ll leave the readies behind the jump with Ron. — Garry Bushell, The Face, p. 158, 2001
▶ get the jump on; have the jump on to get, or have, an advantage over someone US, 1912- Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River got the jump on its Oscar rivals when it was named the best film of 2003 by the National Board of Review. — The Guardian, 4 December 2003
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