Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The commencement of a race or of a planned military attack.
- noun A jumping contest at a horse show, especially a final or tie-breaking round.
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Examples
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What's more, it appears that Scream 4 is the jump-off for another trilogy.
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What's more, it appears that Scream 4 is the jump-off for another trilogy.
Archive 2009-08-01 2009
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The stardom of the cast of Basketball Wives, Love & Hip Hop and plus-ones like Amber Rose and Cat Stacks make being a groupie, jump-off, or an athlete/rapper's girlfriend seem like a lucrative career choice.
Sharief Easterling: Love & Hip Hop: The Coon Squad Sharief Easterling 2012
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While there are many great images in this work that might serve as jump-off into prose/poetry ~ I confess my inability to grasp it as connected thought; reading it feels more like trying to pick up egg whites.
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He cared more about the jump-off in South America than he did about his state, his wife and his kids.
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This really is the best possible jump-off point for bringing institutional reform into the conventional-wisdom fold.
Matthew Yglesias » Richard Shelby Shuts the Government Down 2010
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It's a whole new freaking jump-off, said the Peas 'leader will. i.am.
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Let the jump-off from South America stand by his side, since he was so gung-ho to disappear just to see her.
Borger: Jenny Sanford becomes the new political paradigm 2009
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In about 2004, I got noticed by Mike Skinner at a jump-off battle at Brixton Academy.
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The jump-off to 2001 and beyond, it's attitude sneering and bland, with a lah-de-dah shrug at the blood on the ground spilled by those who don't make it.
Dry Rot 2010
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