A toy figure with jointed limbs that can be made to dance by pulling an attached string.(noun)
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Use "jumping-jack" in a sentence
"In areas for stretching, group aerobics or anywhere else that tends to get crowded, maintain a jumping-jack distance from the next person for the sake of safety and basic courtesy.3."
"But Doug's first movie, The Lamb, was hardly supervised by Griffith, who wrote him off as "that jumping-jack, that grinning monkey" with a face like a cantaloupe, and suggested that he go work for Mack Sennett, along with the Keystone Kops and the custard pies."
"We enjoy the close-ups of the artists, the sudden swoops of the camera as it captures the jolting energy of Jagger jumping-jack."