jump in
/d͡ʒʌmp ˈɪn/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.69 in modern English
17
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
verb
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump, in.
Example Sentences
- "I jumped in the car, and we sped off to the meeting."
- "[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 punk ass up / [Al Dog:] That's right / [Toothpick, turning to the rest of the gang:] And the rest of y'all don't cut him no slack. Y'all fools get busy [they precede to a game of jump rope with the young man Toothpick and Al Dog were talking to jumping]"
- "His [my cousin's] uncle was already in the gang. […] So, we go up to the guys, we didn't even know how to ask, kinda like "Hey, uh, can we get jumped in?" And they're like, "Yeah, come on." And all I remember is I landed on the ground and he [one of the gang members] got on top of me and boom! I blanked out."
- "[Jackie:] Look, I know you're saving up money to go to California, but I know those kids ain't as serious as you. So when you get tired of them, I'll be able to let you into our group. I mean, we'd probably have to jump you in or something, but... / [Elora:] You just ganged up on my friend. What makes you think I'm just gonna jump ship?"
- "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."
- "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."
Etymology
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /d͡ʒʌmp ˈɪn/
- British English: /d͡ʒʌmp ˈɪn/