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jump in
verb
to initiate (someone) into a youth gang through a timed group beating US- When they jump you in three of them start to hit you and you got to hit back for 30 seconds. — Los Angeles Times, p. E15A, 20 September 1990
- I had heard about being “courted in” (“courted in” means to be accepted through a barrage of tests, usually physical, though this can include shooting people) or “jumped in[.]” — Sanyika Shakur, Monster, p. 9, 1993
- “We’re not going to jump you in because you’ll probably kick one of our asses.” — S. Beth Atkin, Voices from the Street, p. 72, 1996
- During one ceremony, more than 50 street taggers from the Kings with Style (KW) were “jumped in.” This intitiation ceremony [read: beating] is said to last 18 seconds for each prospect. — Bill Valentine, Gangs and Their Tattoos, p. 109, 2000
- Shane knew you didn’t usually get a street name unless you’d been “jumped in the set”[.] — Stephen J. Cannell, The Tin Collectors, p. 147, 2001
- Now I know. Courting means to be physically “jumped in.” — Colton Simpson, Inside the Crips, p. 19, 2005
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