jump the rattler

verb

To travel on a train without paying the fare.

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Meanings

verbjump the rattler (third-person singular simple present jumps the rattler, present participle jumping the rattler, simple past and past participle jumped the rattler)

present singular third person jumps the rattler · participle present jumping the rattler · participle past jumped the rattler · past jumped the rattler · alternative jump a rattler

  1. AustraliaslangTo travel on a train without paying the fare.

    Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls.

    1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 269
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