queue-jump

British  

verb

1. to take a place in a queue ahead of those already queuing; push in

2. to obtain prior consideration or some other advantage out of turn or unfairly

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Other Word Forms

• queue-jumper noun

Example Sentences

"The higher and more senior your connection, the better the treatment, or the easier the queue-jump. If you know the head of the hospital, then there won’t be trouble getting a bed," a Shanghai doctor said.

From Reuters

In doing so, “Equatorial sought to queue-jump” by laying claim on the property “which is meant to be divided equally to all creditors,” Sutton told Reuters by phone.

From Reuters

So this is how private medicine works in a pandemic: I’m using a private referral to queue-jump, and not even paying for it.

From The Guardian

Eventually, ticket holder number 247 came to the door and Russian photographer Anatoly Doroshchenko, who had arrived that morning and didn’t pay for the right to queue-jump, became the first purchaser in Russia of one of the new phones.

From Reuters

A man sprayed bleach into the eyes of a Poundland worker when she asked him not to queue-jump, police have said.

From BBC