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单词 jump-up
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Brit. /ˈdʒʌmpʌp/, U.S. /ˈdʒəmpˌəp/, Australian English /ˈdʒʌmpʌp/, Caribbean English /ˈdʒʌmpʌp/
Etymology: < to jump up.
colloquial.
1. An escarpment. Australian local.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > slope > [noun] > steep
cliffOE
cleevec1300
hangingc1400
braea1500
steep1555
steepness1585
proclivity1645
upright1712
sliddera1793
snab1797
scarp1802
escarpment1815
shin1817
escarp1856
hag1868
jump-off1873
inface1896
fault-scarp1897
scarping1909
fault-line scarp1911
steephead1918
jump-up1927
1927 M. Terry Through Land of Promise vi. 85 We had been looking at the ‘jump-up’ marking the extremity of the Barkly Tableland.
1969 ‘A. Garve’ Boomerang i. 32 There's a sharpish rise from the plain to the tableland, with a steep edge—what we call the ‘jump-up’.
2. Caribbean. A party or celebration characterized by lively dancing. Also (and in earliest use): a lively style of dance.Particularly associated with carnival.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > informal
hop1731
kick-upc1781
carpet-dance1846
shindig1871
stomp1926
jump-up1948
society > leisure > dancing > types of dance or dancing > dances of other countries > [noun] > West Indies
myal1868
bamboula1883
merengue1888
mento1910
burru1929
son1931
dinki mini1936
Shango1941
jump-up1948
Afro1949
1948 E. Leaf Isles of Rhythm viii. 170 Dancing and doing the jump-up to the din of the steel bands.
1952 R. de Boissière Crown Jewel in L. Winer Dict. Eng./Creole Trinidad & Tobago (2009) 477/2 He..wishes he could join in the jump-up with the women himself.
1969 I. McDonald Humming-bird Tree (1992) v. 164 The steelband section that would give the music for the jump-up were sounding out their pans now, lightly beating on the seasoned iron.
1973 Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 6/1 With the carnival fever in the air, the students at the Cave Hill campus will stage their pre-carnival jump-up and calypso tent at the campus tomorrow, beginning at 5 p.m.
2013 @andreaqueens 19 Aug. in twitter.com (accessed 10 Dec. 2020) Carnival week!!! Woop woop! Prepare for the jump up with me tonight.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> as lemmas

jump-up
a. An act of jumping; a spring from the ground or other base; a leap, a bound: usually with reference to people or animals springing with the muscular action of the limbs. Sometimes with adverb, as jump-up.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > a leap, spring, or jump
leapOE
startc1330
saulta1350
lope14..
launchc1440
sprenting?a1475
loup1487
springa1500
stenda1500
benda1522
sprenta1522
bounce1523
jump1552
sally1589
rise1600
bound1667
vault1728
sprinta1800
spang1817
spend1825
upleap1876
sprit1880
bunny hop1950
bunny-hop1969
the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [verb (intransitive)] > rapidly or sharply
jump-up1890
skyrocket1895
toadstool1939
balloon1946
mushroom1951
ramp1980
1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Iumpe, subsultus. Iumpe by Iumpe, subsultim.
1589 R. Robinson Golden Mirrour sig. H.3 Began with speed, for to plucke vp my feete, Because the place, did put me to my iumps.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H3v The Orbes celestiall Will daunce Kemps Iigge. They'le reuel with neate iumps.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 265 It [sc. the hare]..sildome looketh forward, because it goeth by iumpes.
1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth III. 205 The cat..then seized it with a jump.
1851 M. Reid Scalp Hunters I. ix. 120 We will be back in a squirrel's jump.
1890 Spectator 15 Mar. The god comes out of the car with a jump-up like a Jack-in-the-box.
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