Definition of "high-jump" [high-jump]

• Alternative spelling of high jump. (noun)

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• "The men's high-jump record has been broken 18 times since 1968."
• "Grant may have been a mediocre student at West Point, but he was an excellent horseman and set a high-jump record that stood for nearly 25 years."
• "Most sports eponyms (words taken from a person's name) are more closely related to the actual sport, such as the Axel jump in skating (named after Norwegian skater Axel Paulsen) and the Fosbury flop (a high-jump technique popularized by Dick Fosbury)."