to jump-start
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3.7
- phrasal verb
- /ˈdʒʌmpˌstɑrt/
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- She asked her friend to jump-start her car after it wouldn't start in the cold weather.
- jump-start a car
Examples
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Well, golf carts are easy to jump-start, you got to get the right wires together.
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Well, my grandfather died trying to jump-start a car.
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So we're having to jump start this guy with their car?
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This thing seriously amazing highly recommend it and we have used it to jump start cars, not this car, but other cars.
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It's sort of like jump-starting a dead car battery on a winter morning.
Fiction book (2002) -
That aspect of not being able to jump-start an engine is a major disappointment, but looking on the bright side, it is a venue for improvement for future models.
Blog text (11) -
A disadvantage of the CTEK battery is that it cannot jump start a vehicle when an engine dies out and the battery is fully drained.
Blog text (11) -
After graduation, though, the frat boys went off to Chicago or Minneapolis, and I met Egg in the library parking lot when he volunteered to jump-start my car.
Fiction book (1998) -
I had to jump-start my brother's car this morning because the battery was dead.
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If your car won't start, you can try to jump-start it using cables from another vehicle.
Synonyms
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6.8
To start a car with another vehicle's battery
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3.5
To get a car going when its battery is dead using cables and another car
Antonyms
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Jump-start The literal verb comes from helping a car with a dead battery by using jumper cables to give it a short jump ('sudden push') so the engine will start ('begin').