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- verb Present participle of
jaywalk .
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Examples
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It may seem counterintuitive, but jaywalking is in fact the safest way to cross a street.
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Fortunately, jaywalking is a joke law, and can be ignored (as long as there are no cops around).
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It may seem counterintuitive, but jaywalking is in fact the safest way to cross a street.
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This might be a bit of a shock to those of you back East, but jaywalking is against societal norms in much of the West, including Arizona.
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“Ever wonder why they call it jaywalking?” she said, her thick Welsh accent slurred with her lips pressed against the window.
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Especially after having been in several cities in the past year or so, such as Washington, DC and Montreal, where jaywalking is commonplace, and the only way you'll get yourself a ticket in those cities is if you're obviously putting your own safety in danger.
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Sure, jaywalking is illegal, but nobody expects that it’ll be enforced all the time.
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This is not at all like not prosecuting jaywalking, which is an absurd comparison.
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Travel guide author Gail Lecht recalls jaywalking across
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It is not like jaywalking, which is a civil traffic offense.
MaryW commented on the word jaywalking
Joseph Stromberg, The Forgotten History of How Automakers Invented the Crime of “Jaywalking” Vox (Nov. 4, 2015)See Peter Jensen Brown, Jaywalkers and Jayhawkers - a Pedestrian History and Etymology of "Jaywalking", Early Sports and Pop Culture History Blog (Nov. 24, 2014)
August 27, 2018