Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. A person who violates pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or who walks on the part of the street intended for vehicles instead of the part designated for pedestrians.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a reckless pedestrian who crosses a street illegally
Examples
“There is a WA law that states as soon as the walk changes to a flashing walk if a pedestrian steps into the cross walk he is a "jaywalker" and can be ticketed.”
“Now, there's also the ever-popular "Let's grab a brisket and fire up the grille," "Good thing that jaywalker got ticketed, before some poor motorist was held responsible for his death," and "What's up with the number of teenage bums with dogs and cats with them?”
“So with visions of dollar signs (Or pound signs anyway) in their heads, they basically reign in the troops if the current figures are good enough, or get them busting every jaywalker in Strathclyde, to get the “detections” up.”
See No Evil…… (at least until the next financial year) « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
“Now I can't speak for the rest of Robot 6, but I'm personally not going to judge someone who passes a file or two anymore than I'm going to judge a jaywalker or someone who walks home with a box of pens from the office supply cabinet.”
“In the criminal hierarchy the jaywalker is low on the list.”
The Huffington Post: Byron Williams: Do We Have the Courage to Consider Alternate Vantage Points?
“No cop is going to ask a jaywalker for papers, then immediately handcuff them to the next bus heading for the Mexican border as soon as he hears “Oops, left it in my otherpants”.”
“But, by the way, I was ready to forgive the armed robber, so I'm not going to get all that jacked up about a jaywalker here either.”
“But that's like saying that an armed robber ought to be treated the same as a jaywalker.”
“The jaywalker puts himself at jeopardy of imminent injury through his illegal act and has no right to directly harm someone else just to save his ownhide.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drug Dealers’ Self-Defense Against Other Drug Dealers
“The jaywalker however would be fine defending himself against the mugger, whether or not the mugger was simultaneously guilty of jaywalking.”
The Volokh Conspiracy » Drug Dealers’ Self-Defense Against Other Drug Dealers
Lists
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Perponyms
List of words referent to persons who commit specific crimes, or are suspected of committing those crimes, beginning with arsonist and safecracker.
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2008 Wordlist
Hopefully, I'll be using this site for more than one year. It will be fun then to look back and see what new words I found worthy of notice in any given year.
All words spotted in 2008...longanimity, permalancer, breeder, biodegradable, handicapable, gender-neutral, translator, interpreter, translation, interpreting, kleptocracy, fanfiction and 1598 more...
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chambers
I have a small book on the history of Chambers dictionary which includes some of the unusual words and definitions that they have (and have not) published in the dictionary down through the years. ...
Tweets
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garyth123 from Chambers dictionary: a careless pedestrian whom motorists are expected to avoid running down Dec 29, 2008
bilby
J's the jumping jay-walker,
A sort of human jeep.
He crosses where the lights are red.
Before he looks, he'll leap!
Then many a wheel
Begins to squeal
And many a brake to slam.
He turns your knees to jelly
And the traffic into jam.
- Phyllis McGinley, 'J's The Jumping Jay-Walker'. Nov 17, 2008
frindley “an alleged human being who crosses the street at other points than the regular crossings�?
(Fort Wayne newspaper report from 1913) WWW Oct 19, 2008