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Definition of "jumping-jack" []

  • 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."