to jaywalk
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- verb
- /ˈdʒeɪˌwɔk/
- Here, there's a huge problem with pedestrians jaywalking, and I've only ever seen one stopped by a cop for it.
- jaywalked across the street
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- And as you're jaywalking, you're the system is taking money out of your bank account for jaywalking, right?
- And if a few people start to jaywalk and cross on a red light, they will also, they will follow.
- So if a cop caught him jaywalking with a Budweiser, I'm over here from England, I'm on holiday, I'm visiting, visiting my cousin Sean.
Examples
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I routinely jaywalk.
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Some people jaywalk.
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After that, you can jaywalk all you want.
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You jaywalked in a business district, sir.
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The old lady was jaywalking.
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According to police, Walsh, working in a patrol car, saw several people jaywalking on Martin Luther King Jr.
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In Australia, you are only jaywalking if you cross within 20 metres of a signalized intersection or marked crossing, or against the lights.
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In Pittsburgh, at least, the law is written such that unless you actually interfered with traffic, it isn't jaywalking.
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Since we didn't actually see these women jaywalking, we don't know if their infraction was causing people to slam on brakes or what.
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The man decided to jaywalk across the busy street, ignoring the pedestrian crossing.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jaywalk comes from the old slang jay meaning 'a simple or country person' and walk, because city people used the word for someone who crossed streets as if they did not know the rules. So, to jaywalk today means to cross a road without using a crosswalk or waiting for the light, often in a dangerous or 'against the law' way.