jump

Word Origin & History

1520s, perhaps imitative (cf. bump); another theory derives it from words in Gallo-Romance dialects of southwestern France (cf. jumba "to rock, to balance, swing," yumpa "to rock"), picked up during English occupation in Hundred Years War. Superseded native leap, bound, and spring in most senses. Meaning "to attack" is from 1789; that of "to do the sex act with" is from 1630s. Related: Jumped; jumping. To jump to a conclusion is from 1704. Jumping-rope is from 1805. Jump in a lake "go away and stop being a pest" attested from 1912.

Example Sentences forjump

I'm not going to jump into work for all the papers in New York.

Porter's voice made Crane jump; he had almost forgotten the race.

At the third jump his hat flew off, disclosing the jagged end of a two-by-four.

Run along and jump into something, and let us get our tires and try Kitty out.

Then, if we stop where we are, we'll have to jump up and get out of the way, to let him pass.

He must have seen me jump up, because he vanished like a ghost.

If he could only jump to where they were, and go on with them!

Then, again, he'd run along a log and jump from stone to stone.

Once or twice she had to jump to escape the strike of a Rattlesnake.

At the same moment he heard another sound that made him jump to his feet.

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