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jump
verb- to have sex US, 1999
- “I sure woulda liked to jump her.” — Irving Shulman, Cry Tough, p. 85, 1949
- “Now it gonna cost everytime you jump her.” — Warren Miller, The Cool World, p. 41, 1959
- On the bright Sunday afternoon we visited West Point, Strauss wore a pair of tortoiseshell prescription sunglasses that made me want to jump him. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 109, 1999
- to be lively, wild, full of activity US, 1938
- We got hold of a piano somewheres, put up some tables on the porch, and inside of two weeks we had the joint jumping. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 86, 1946
- [H]e said she was a marvelous cook and everything would jump. — Jack Kerouac, On the Road, p. 11, 1957
- Havana was really jumpin in those days–best town I was ever in. — Edwin Torres, Carlito’s Way, p. 35, 1975
- to attack physically, especially by surprise or all of a sudden UK, 1789
- Not like the Socs, who jump greasers and wreck houses and throw beer blasts for kicks[.] — S.E. Hinton, The Outsiders, p. 5, 1967
- Weirdos is no fun to jump though, because they don’t fight back, they just curl up while you kick them. — UK Rolling Stone, 26 July 1969
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996
- (of a horse) to begin a race AUSTRALIA
- There were seventeen starters and when the field jumped away this particular horse had settled in third place[.] — Joe Brown, Just for the Record, p. 202, 1984
- Button Hole jumped well and was in second sport for the first mile[.] — Clive Galea, Slipper, p. 6, 1988
- to board a moving train in order to catch a free ride US, 1885
- Many of them walked along the rail line and didn’t attempt to jump us. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 183, 1969
- He knew I knew he was jumping a ride but he began to pick them [mushrooms] out too and put them in my hat. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, p. 185, 1969
- Just jump him out and he’ll do the rest. — Joe Andersen, Winners Can Laugh, p. 75, 1982
- to escape, to abscond UK, 1865
Originally, “to jump ship”. - Then there was Ralph, just jumped Scrubs [Wormwood Scrubs prison], dripping desperation on Jonesy’s settee. — Mark Powell, Snap, p. 59, 2001
- to travel from an engagement in one town to the next town where an engagement is scheduled US
- He knows what it means to jump five and six hundred miles a night. — Babs Gonzales, Movin’ On Down De Line, p. 105, 1975
- to steal a car by creating a short circuit with the ignition system wires to start the engine US
- That was all right, jumping cars with Bud Long. — Elmore Leonard, The Big Bounce, p. 98, 1969
- to use specially designed equipment to cause a car to bounce up and down US
- One favorite feature is “jumping,” using the electric-hydraulic rams in place of shock absorbers. — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, p. 27, 1992
- in drag racing, to cross the starting line too soon US
- Drag race drivers are disqualified if their cars jump off the starting line before the green light shows. — Ed Radlauer, Drag Racing Pix Dix, p. 31, 1970
- to have sex US, 1964
- Once in a while I’ll have a dancer come on to me–with the expec-tation that simply because I’m a lesbian I’m dying to jump her bones. — Frederique Delacoste, Sex Work, p. 24, 1987
- [H]e could make her laugh, probably even in bed, calling it something like “jumping her bones.” — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 186, 1992
▶ jump a rattler
to board a train illegally AUSTRALIA, 1905- Hitch-hiked, jumped the rattlers all the way across the Nullabor to Kalgoorlie. — Arthur Upfield, Bony and the Mouse, p. 71, 1959
- [B]ut seeing as we hadn’t paid a train fare since 1930, we jumped the rattler out of Brisbane by force of habit. — Frank Hardy, The Yarns of Billy Borker, p. 49, 1965
- Most men “jumping the rattler” were not going anywhere in par-ticular. They were just keeping moving as required by law. — Patsy Adam-Smith, Folklore of the Australian Railwaymen, 1969
- “But the new stationmaster says no one can jump the rattler out of Benson’s Valley,” Sniffy persisted. — Frank Hardy, Legends from Benson’s Valley, p. 139, 1972
- — Frank Hardy, Hardy’s People, p. 147, 1986
▶ jump bail
to deliberately fail to appear in court after bail has been posted, especially by moving away in order to avoid recognition or the court’s jurisdiction US, 1865
From JUMP— Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 67, 1996▶ jump out of your skin
to be greatly startled UK, 1937- The voice spoke directly behind me, and I almost jumped out of my skin. — Lois Duncan, Stranger with My Face, p. 34, 1990
▶ jump salty
to become angry US, 1969- “Don’t jump salty with me.” — Malcom Braly, Felony Tank, p. 125, 1961
- Broads jumped salty and called attention to their ol’ man’s ears. — Steve Cannon, Groove, Bang, and Jive Around, p. 71, 1969
- I had no intentions of ever being their muscle man if a john happened to jump salty. — Robert Deane Pharr, S.R.O., p. 369, 1971
▶ jump someone’s bones
to have sex US, 1965- Failing that, he would have thoroughly enjoyed jumping on her elegant bones. — Max Shulman, Anyone Got a Match?, p. 38, 1964
- Maybe I do want to come over and jump on your bones. — Gerald Petievich, To Live and Die in L.A., p. 27, 1983
- I wondered why I didn’t just go in and jump her bones. — Jim Carroll, Forced Entries, p. 173, 1987
- Once in a while I’ll have a dancer come on to me–with the expec-tation that simply because I’m a lesbian I’m dying to jump her bones. — Frederique Delacoste, Sex Work, p. 24, 1987
- [H]e could make her laugh, probably even in bed, calling it something like “jumping her bones.” — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 186, 1992
- He’s just another guy who wants to jump your bones. — American Beauty, 1999
- No man is ever going to jump your bones until you get some meat on them. — Rita Ciresi, Pink Slip, p. 327, 1999
▶ jump sore
to anger US- “Jack,” I said, “O Jilly, if I’ve crossed you, don’t jump sore.” — William “Lord” Buckley, The Raven, 1960
▶ jump stink
to become angry US- Everything seemed to be going wrong for me and Bud–the whole town jumped stink on us. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 130, 1946
- Macho, their president, jumped stink and said, “Time man, we got heart[.]” — Piri Thomas, Down These Mean Streets, p. 52, 1967
▶ jump the broomstick
to enter into a common-law marriage UK, 1898
Probably a figurative use of a traditional custom, hence, also, the many variations: “to jump (over) the besom”, “broom”, “bucket”, “ditch”, “doorstep”, etc. Brewer in his Phrase and Fable suggests that “broomstick” is an eleboration of “brom” (the bit of a bridle) and is thus symbolic of skipping over the restraint of marriage.- Well, come a little baby let’s jump the broomstick, / Come a let’s tie the knot[.] — Charles Robins, Let’s Jump the Broomstick, 1959
- Mum and Dad went from strength to strength, eventually jumping the broomstick at Epsom Downs[.] — Jimmy Stockin, On The Cobbles, p. 89, 2000
▶ jump the green
to start quickly just after, or before, a traffic light turns green CANADA- Traditionally in Montreal, drivers both burn the yellow and jump the green. It isn’t hard to imagine what this custom does to insurance rates. — Lewis Poteet, Car & Motorcycle Slang, p. 42, 1992
▶ jump the gun
to act prematurely US, 1942
From athletics.- Maybe we’d jumped the gun on this one, been just a little too eager[.] — Lauren Weisberger, The Devil Wears Prada, p. 75, 2003
▶ jump the shark
of a television programme, to pass a peak of popularity; may also be applied to other entertainments, entertainers or fashions US
Coined after a 1977 episode of long-running US television comedy Happy Days in which a central character in need of fresh impetus took to water-skis and attempted to leap over a shark. Fred Fox Jr., one of the writers responsible for the episode, took to the Los Angeles Times on 3 September, 2010, to defend the episode and to argue that the episode did not mark the beginning of the show’s decline in popularity.- Has “SP” [Southpark] “jumped the shark” with its April Fools’ episode? — Los Angeles Times, p. F48, 9 April 1998
- Gone are the plaudits that greeted Cold Feet’s appearance six years ago; in their place are bad puns and nasty suggestions that the show jumped the shark some time ago. — The Guardian, 18 March 2003
- Those in the know call it “jumping the shark”–when a successful brand crosses from aspirational cool into “so over” mediocrity. — The Independent, 1 February 2004
▶ jump through hoops
to be seen to do everything that is required and more UK, 1917- The teams were becoming more and more fed up so that instead of training they were jumping through hoops for all and sundry[.] — Andy McNab (writing of the late 1970s/early 80s), Immediate Action, p. 240, 1995
▶ jump to it
to make an energetic start or respond energetically to the bidding to do so UK, 1929
Often used as an imperative.- The reason we are together with them is not because America snaps its fingers and we feel we have to jump to it ... We are with them because it is in our interests. — The Guardian, 6 September 2002
▶ jump wires
to steal a car and start the engine by creating a short circuit with the ignition system wires US- It was a friend of Ryan’s, Bud Long, who had taught him how to jump wires: how to short out the starter and run a wire from the battery to the coil[.] — Elmore Leonard, The Big Bounce, p. 98, 1969
▶ jump yellow
to act in a cowardly manner US- At least he had heart, he fought it out, but you jumped yellow and dove for the bar. — Piri Thomas, Seven Long Times, p. 38, 1974
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