jaywalking

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noun

An act of behaving as a jaywalker.

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Meanings

jaywalking1

nounjaywalking (uncountable)
  1. uncountableAn act of behaving as a jaywalker.

    For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement.

    2021 January 13, Alan Ehrenhalt, “Jaywalking and the Dilemma of ‘Victimless’ Crimes”, in Governing, archived from the original on 04 Mar 2021
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    […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare[…

    1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 257

jaywalking2

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of jaywalk

Origin

jaywalking · noun

Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.

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jaywalking · verb

From jaywalk + -ing.

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Translations

Danish fumlegængeri
  • fumlegængerithe act of jaywalking
Japanese 信号無視
  • 信号無視 (shingōmushi)the act of jaywalking
Cite this entry
APA

jaywalking. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jaywalking

MLA

“jaywalking.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jaywalking. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “jaywalking,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/jaywalking.

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