jump in
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jump in
- /d͡ʒʌmp ˈɪn/ UK, US
Where it comes from
For the US slang sense, compare jump (“attack suddenly and violently”).
verb jumps in · jumping in · jumped in
- To enter something quickly, usually a mode of transport. I jumped in the car, and we sped off to the meeting.
- To join in on an activity quickly.
- To interrupt someone while they are speaking.
- To initiate into an organization, usually a gang, with violence. [Toothpick:] Been hanging with the homies in the hood for a while now / [Al Dog:] 'Bout time we jump your punk ass in / [Toothpick:] That's right. Let me tell you something in this world if you can't swim / [Al Dog:] You bound to drizzown / [Toothpick:] Yeah, and if you fall you better pick your pun
- To play a card that matches the top card in the discard pile out of turn. With +2, you build on them /add them together in a similar way, but you can only jump in if you have the same color +2, OR if the player whose turn it is has a +2 of any color, he can play it, since it is his turn and he is not jumping in on anyone. […] The wilds can be jumped in on by any wild.
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in. Cathy led the pig down to the pen. “Don’t jump in the mud,” she said. But a pig is a pig. It jumped in the mud.
- To ambush (someone).
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