Slang of the Day

💠jump

✍🏾Meaning
to leave without permission, to move illegally

❕For example

🔺Lenny is on the run from the police because he jumped bail instead of going to court.

🔺I got a traffic fine in the mail today. I was caught jumping a red light by one of those hidden cameras.

Note:
This meaning of "jump" is found in a series of collocations and idioms such as "jump bail" and "jump the gun", and should only be used as part of one of these.
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