jaywalk
verb (used without object)
to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
jaywalked
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past participleof jaywalk.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof jaywalk.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
jaywalkverb (used without object)to cross a street at a place other than a regular crossing or in a heedless manner, as diagonally or against a traffic light.
Example Sentences
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Investigators later concluded that Reinhold hadn’t technically jaywalked, but they said he wasn’t free to leave because he’d crossed the street against a red signal.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 12, 2022
Agnes Ouyang was heading to work in Shenzhen last year when two police officers told her she had jaywalked and would need to show them her identity card.
From New York Times ● Dec. 17, 2019
When the man crossed the street, the officer then said, “Oh, you just jaywalked now, sir.”
From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2016
She kissed me on the lips and turned and jaywalked across the street to her beige and brown Pontiac.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 30, 2013
Kirby jaywalked across the street diagonally and passed in front of an electric headed south.
From Tangled Trails A Western Detective Story by William MacLeod Raine
