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on the jump en · ADP

Meanings

  1. (Canada, US, informal) In a hurry.
    • Accordingly Sam Daniels was sent for and arrived on the jump. 2021, Peter B. Kyne, Cappy Ricks Retires:
    • Everybody was on the jump, and it was a furious crowd that went rushing down toward where the new shell had been laid, along the shore of the river, at a point where a little beach offered an ideal spot for launching. 2021, Allen Chapman, Fred Fenton on the Crew:
    • Come on the jump. Bring the needful for first aid. It's a rifle shot through the lungs or heart or both. 1915, Jack London·, The Little Lady of the Big House:
  2. (Canada, US, dated, informal) Very busy; fully engaged in energetic activity; on the go.
    • Again she bemoans the inroad of interruptions, especially those of the "inexorable" telephone which keeps Polly on the jump. 1937, The New Outlook for the Blind - Volumes 31-32, page 198:
    • We have been kept on the jump to stabilize the situation and to maintain some mobile striking power as a general reserve both from defensive and local offensive affairs. 1999, Dwight David Eisenhower, Joseph P. Hobbs, George Catlett Marshall, Dear General: Eisenhower's Wartime Letters to Marshall, page 98:
    • There were many other jobs to be done during the day, for the traditional smartness of a packet was maintained only by keeping the crews constantly on the jump at times when, on an ordinary freighter, they might be taking life more easily. 1938, Robert Greenhalgh Albion, Square-riggers on Schedule, page 142:
    • My cavalry is on the jump all the time and in every direction, as you know from having seen several detachments, and I will do my utmost to carry out orders and wishes of the authorities. 1892, E.V. Sumner, Annual Report of the Secretary of War, page 231: