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Definition of Jump on

1. Verb. Get up on the back of. "Mount a horse"

Definition of Jump on

1. Verb. To board a vehicle. ¹

2. Verb. (idiomatic) To attack verbally, to criticise excessively. ¹

3. Verb. (idiomatic) To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Jump On

Literary usage of Jump on

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini by Benvenuto Cellini (1910)
"... seeing that the horses would save their lives as well as I too hoped to escape with mine by the same means; but that if he tried to jump on me, ..."

2. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1837)
"If I leave my horse in the highway, that gives you no right to jump on and gallop off with him. ... jump on ..."

3. Gymnastic Teaching by William Skarstrom (1914)
"Hip grasp st. jump on toes. Jump in place with side-flinging of arms. ... jump on toes with foot placing forw.-backw. and alt. arm flinging forw. ..."

4. Folk-dances and singing games: twenty-six folk-dances of Norway, Sweden by Elizabeth Burchenal (1909)
"jump on both feet in place, landing with the feet slightly separated (one), ... jump on both feet, and at the same time face about to the right (landing ..."

5. Extracts of the Journals and Correspondence of Miss Berry: From the Year by Mary Berry (1865)
"Without making the slightest gesture, her mistress only said to her,— ' Now, Fidelle, you may here jump on any chair you please.' She instantly jumped on ..."

6. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"jump on, John Tabor, jump on !' said hr. " ' How do you mean ?' said I; for although I had killed whales, and eat of them too, such an idea as that of ..."

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