Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To cross a street illegally or in a reckless manner.
Wiktionary
- v. law To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for cars rather than on the sidewalk.
WordNet 3.0
- v. cross the road at a red light
Etymologies
- Back-formation from jaywalker (Wiktionary)
- From jay2, inexperienced person. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“For example, how many people "jaywalk" in New York city everyday?”
“Bristol & Levi back on, Gabourey's mom is a star, Don't jaywalk in Seattle”
Pink is the New Blog | Everybody's Business Is My Business » 2010 » June » 16
“- Don't jaywalk (don't be the recipient of a car accident if its easy to avoid).”
The Huffington Post: James Altucher: 12 Ways to Live Forever
“However, should a person run into traffic or jaywalk I believe they still have the right of way, even if they are breaking the law.”
“Of course there are butthead pedestrians who jaywalk in front of cars as if they own the road.”
“But games aside, some people -- actually, quite a few -- figure that no synthetic sentient will ever be able to do things humans take for granted, such as performing stand-up comedy, writing meaningful poetry, or simply knowing when it's safe to jaywalk.”
The Huffington Post: Seth Shostak: Today Jeopardy, Tomorrow the World
“If someone told me that jaywalking was legal in D.C., but that if I did it, someone could justifiably kill me, I wouldn't jaywalk.”
The Washington Post: South Dakota: Abortion isn't illegal, but if you do it, we can kill you
“We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes.”
“Next thing you know, they will be shooting people who jaywalk.”
“One guy states "Next thing you know, they will be shooting people who jaywalk", that would fall under the purview of the police, and I've seen with my own eyes (quite recently in fact) a guy get Tazed for just that.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘jaywalk’.
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Chit Chat
Conversations that are shorter than those featured in my conversations list.
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Scrabble words which start with the l...
juvenile, juvenal, jutty, jute, jut, justness, justly, justle, justify, justice, juster, just and 534 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Pop Culture
Comic strip character names and words, along with modern slang oddities.
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beastly verbs
someone must already have this list?
squirrel away, worm it out of so..., pony up, fish for compliments, weasel out, badger, outfox, horse around, hound, cow, chicken out, goose and 99 more...
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Permutations
There are 17576 different sequences of three letters (26 x 26 x 26). How many of them occur in words? General rules of engagement: mononyms only, lower case preferred to upper case, short preferred...
aaargh, niqaabi, Isaac, raad, baaed, haaf, laager, aah, kamaaina, Naajaat, aak, aalii and 637 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, J
jaggery, juju, jackanapes, jasper, jazzy, jostle, jaywalk, jerky, jawbone, jersey, jaw, junction and 83 more...
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J to K
jack, jailbreak, jampack, jannock, jashawk, jaywalk, jerk, jock, jook, juke, joystick, journeywork and 2 more...
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suunflowerss warped minds think alike!8P Sep 14, 2007
reesetee Aaaahaha! Suunflowerss, I was all set to say that and you beat me to it. :-) Sep 14, 2007
oroboros And not the oroborocide! I actually like the variant: Why did the chicken cross its legs? See chicken. Sep 14, 2007
suunflowerss to get to the oroboroside Sep 14, 2007
reesetee But why, oroboros? Why do they cross the road? Sep 14, 2007
oroboros This is the way reckless avians cross the road! Sep 14, 2007