jump-up
Britishnoun
verb
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to stand up quickly and suddenly
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(in the Caribbean) to take part in a jump-up
Example Sentences
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In and of itself, it won’t create a jump-up in anyone’s personal net worth.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 6, 2026
These are solid, stable jobs, but they don’t enable the kind of jump-up in socioeconomic status that my family experienced many decades ago.
From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2016
Rizzla’s EP is built around knife-edge pauses and jump-up beats, with desultory BPMs pitted against 90s house samples.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 8, 2015
"Rome", from their latest album, Odd Blood, involves a jump-up rockabillyish rhythm, a synthesised steel pan melody, and acrylic farting noises masquerading as a bassline.
From The Guardian ● May 29, 2010
The table was decorated with that flower which some people call Johnny jump-up, and some heartsease, and of which all that I can state positively is that it is the great-grandmother of the pansy family.
From We Three by Hutt, Henry
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