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- noun One who
jumps the queue .
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Examples
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Queue-jumping is a much greater cultural affront than desecrating an art work because the queue-jumper seems to be saying: "My time is more important than everyone else's."
Vandalising an old master is bad, but not quite as evil as queue-jumping | David Mitchell 2011
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And while I'd offer to be your proofreader (you seem to have plenty of volunteers and I'm no queue-jumper:) I'd probably get so caught up in the story I'd forget to proofread!
Typos Nalini Singh 2008
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The shorter the temper the more likely people were to have experienced or perhaps recalled a queue-jumper.
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And that rude queue-jumper deserves some narrative punishment (as in being written out of the story in chapter 3).
Back To The Writers’ Group « Tales from the Reading Room 2008
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I can reveal exclusively here Darcus Howe is an extremely rude queue-jumper.
What Kind of Police Service Do we Want? Rachel 2005
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The ensuing commotion was reported to the police who roared u in a bevy of Casspirs, only to find the hapless queue-jumper being given the short end of the stick by a group of about 20 Zulu matriarchs.
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Not popular with fellow voters was African National Congress chairman and KwaZulu-Natal leader, queue-jumper Jacob Zuma.
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Crimson Bolt expresses his antipathy towards a queue-jumper by smashing him and his wife in the face with a monkey wrench, the film is going to kick so much ass that all our asses will feel well and truly kicked.
Books news, reviews and author interviews | guardian.co.uk 2010
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And it takes just one queue-jumper to ruin the whole set-up.
Tobold's MMORPG Blog 2010
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Lecturing as they went, the arresting officer - for that is what he was - marched the queue-jumper back to the start of the line, by now at the top of Gardiner Street.
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