Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vault, generally over a horizontal bar, performed with the aid of a pole.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb intransitive To perform a
pole vault - verb transitive To
vault over something using a pole vault
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Examples
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Calling the two-hour return of The Event a nonevent is too easy, so let's just say it went over like a sumo wrestler trying to pole-vault.
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His erection was instantaneous and hard enough to pole-vault him to Australia.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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His erection was instantaneous and hard enough to pole-vault him to Australia.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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In the first picture, is that guy in the crosswalk carrying a pole-vault?
BSNYC Product Review: Walmart's Mongoose Cachet "Fixed-Speed" Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2010
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His erection was instantaneous and hard enough to pole-vault him to Australia.
Black Magic Cherry Adair 2010
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Has NYC traffic gotten so bad that people actually pole-vault over it?
BSNYC Product Review: Walmart's Mongoose Cachet "Fixed-Speed" Bicycle BikeSnobNYC 2010
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He put his bag down by the pole-vault pit, looked uptrack to make sure no one was coming, and then walked up to the starting line.
'Once a Runner' 2009
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If you were offered the option of trying to walk around on those thirty-foot stilts you see in the circus in lieu of trying to pole-vault, which one would you prefer to try?
Michael Giltz: Books: Padgett Powell Has A Few Questions He'd Like To Ask 2009
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But Dan's quest ended on the pole-vault mats at the U.S. Olympic trials in New Orleans.
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I don't think that the "scandal" had much to do with Senators feeling their turf was being involved - it had to do with the opposition seizing an issue that they felt could be used as a weapon to pole-vault them into the majority.
Blogger(s) triumph. Ann Althouse 2008
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