英语词汇“jump、up”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

jump-up

释义

jump-up colloq.|ˈdʒʌmpʌp|
[f. to jump up.]
1. An escarpment. local Austral.
1927M. Terry Through Land of Promise 85 We had been looking at the ‘jump-up’ marking the extremity of the Barkly Tableland.1969‘A. Garve’ Boomerang i. 32 There's a sharpish rise from the plain to the tableland, with a steep edge—what we call the ‘jump-up’.
2. An informal West Indian dance.
1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 102 Children and adults dancing in the shuffling manner of the Trinidad Carnival ‘jump-up’.1959‘M. Underwood’ Arm of Law xiv. 164 Some might be found doing a traditional mid-day jump-up.1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vii. 96 A few people..gathered around the calypsonian... Saul was doing a real jump-up in the centre.1971Sunday Times 13 June 9 You have some rum and a bloody good lunch, then you have a jump-up, and a proper shindig.1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 6/1 With the carnival fever in the air, the students at the Cave Hill campus will stage their pre-carnival jump-up and calypso tent at the campus tomorrow, beginning at 5 p.m.

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