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JUMP

4 letters

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TWL06 ✓ SOWPODS ✓ ENABLE1 ✓
Classic 1 pts
Big 1 pts
Super Big 1 pts

JUMP is a valid 4-letter Boggle word. It's listed in all three major word lists — TWL06, SOWPODS, and ENABLE1. It scores 1 in Classic, 1 in Big, and 1 in Super Big Boggle.

Word family

JUMPS-s 2 JUMPING-ing 5 JUMPED-ed 3

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JUMPINGS 11 JUMPINGLY 11
verb
  1. intransitiveTo propel oneself rapidly upward, downward and/or in any horizontal direction such that momentum causes the body to become airborne.
    • The boy jumped over a fence.
    • Kangaroos are known for their ability to jump high.
  2. intransitiveTo cause oneself to leave an elevated location and fall downward.
    • She is going to jump from the diving board.
  3. transitiveTo pass by means of a spring or leap; to overleap.
    • to jump a stream
  4. intransitiveTo employ a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
  5. intransitiveTo jerk the body involuntarily in response to a sudden or unexpected stimulus.
    • That balloon popping made me jump.
    • He jumped when he looked up to see a man standing before him.
  6. figurativelyintransitiveTo increase sharply, to rise, to shoot up.
    • Share prices jumped by 10% after the company announced record profits.
  7. intransitiveTo employ a move in certain board games where one game piece is moved from one legal position to another passing over the position of another piece.
    • The player's knight jumped the opponent's bishop.
  8. transitiveTo move to a position (in a queue/line) that is further forward.
    • I hate it when people jump the queue.
  9. transitiveTo pass (a traffic light) when it is indicating that one should stop.
  10. transitiveTo attack suddenly and violently.
    • The hoodlum jumped a woman in the alley.
  11. slangtransitiveTo engage in sexual intercourse with (a person).
  12. transitiveTo cause to jump.
    • The rider jumped the horse over the fence.
  13. transitiveTo move the distance between two opposing subjects.
  14. transitiveTo increase the height of a tower crane by inserting a section at the base of the tower and jacking up everything above it.
  15. intransitiveTo increase speed aggressively and without warning.
  16. obsoletetransitiveTo expose to danger; to risk; to hazard.
  17. transitiveTo join by a buttweld.
  18. To thicken or enlarge by endwise blows; to upset.
  19. To bore with a jumper.
  20. To jump-start a car or other vehicle with a dead battery, as with jumper cables.
  21. obsoleteTo coincide; to agree; to accord; to tally; followed by with.
  22. intransitiveTo start executing code from a different location, rather than following the program counter.
  23. archaicintransitiveslangTo flee; to make one's escape.
  24. figurativelyintransitiveTo shift one's position or attitude, especially suddenly and significantly.
    • The administration is jumping back from that message.
    • Think hard before you jump towards a particular solution.
  25. intransitiveTo switch locations on chromosomes.
  26. intransitiveslangTo commit suicide.
noun
  1. The act of jumping; a leap; a spring; a bound.
  2. An effort; an attempt; a venture.
  3. A dislocation in a stratum; a fault.
  4. An abrupt interruption of level in a piece of brickwork or masonry.
  5. An instance of propelling oneself upwards.
    • The boy took a skip and a jump down the lane.
  6. An object which causes one to jump; a ramp.
    • The skier flew off the jump and landed perfectly.
  7. An instance of causing oneself to fall from an elevated location.
    • There were a couple of jumps from the bridge.
  8. An instance of employing a parachute to leave an aircraft or elevated location.
    • She was terrified before the jump, but was thrilled to be skydiving.
  9. An instance of reacting to a sudden stimulus by jerking the body.
  10. A jumping move in a board game.
    • the knight's jump in chess
  11. A button (of a joypad, joystick or similar device) used to make a video game character jump (propel itself upwards).
    • Press jump to start.
  12. An obstacle that forms part of a showjumping course, and that the horse has to jump over cleanly.
    • Heartless managed the scale the first jump but fell over the second.
  13. An early start or an advantage.
    • He got a jump on the day because he had laid out everything the night before.
    • Their research department gave them the jump on the competition.
  14. A discontinuity in the graph of a function, where the function is continuous in a punctured interval of the discontinuity.
  15. An abrupt increase in the height of the surface of a flowing liquid at the location where the flow transitions from supercritical to subcritical, involving an abrupt reduction in flow speed and increase in turbulence.
  16. slangAny abrupt increase; a sudden rise; a hike
    • a dramatic jump in prices
  17. An instance of faster-than-light travel, not observable from ordinary space.
  18. A change of the path of execution to a different location.
  19. USabbreviationellipsisinformalEllipsis of jump-start.
    • My car won't start. Could you give me a jump?
  20. abbreviationclippingClipping of jump cut.
  21. Synonym of one-night stand (“single evening's performance”).
  22. A kind of loose jacket for men.
adverb
  1. obsoleteExactly; precisely
adjective
  1. obsoleteExact; matched; fitting; precise.