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pig-jumpAustralian / NZ informal nounA jump made by a horse from all four legs: the horse gives a snort, a semi-buck, and a pig-jump...- It would take more than a pig-jump to throw Oora.
- You ought to be able to sit a pig-jump, Sue.
- Helen, who, though she was a bush girl, had never gone after stock, or sat a pig-jump, far less a buck-jump, shrank a little.
verb [no object](Of a horse) jump from all four legs: my mount began to pig-jump and threw me...- His horse was a part quarter horse which he had trained to buck and pig jump like hell if any one else tried to get on its back.
- He pig jumped in protest before getting into work as if he was a young horse.
- When Lizzie finally got on to the mare, she couldn't buck, but pig-jumped, and raced around the yard
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