jump out

English

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Verb

jump out (third-person singular simple present jumps out, present participle jumping out, simple past and past participle jumped out)

1. (idiomatic) To emerge suddenly.
   • 2012, Ruby H. Happel-Holtz, Kool Kat Charlie of Cocoa Beach, →ISBN, page 2:

     He would hide in corners and other dark places, and jump out, scaring one half to death.

   • 2014, Mike Hockney, Why Math Must Replace Science, →ISBN:

     Wikipedia Science literally claims that existence jumps out of nonexistence, that observable events jump out of unreal wavefunctions, that life jumps out of lifeless atoms, that mind jumps out of mindless atoms, that consciousness jumps out of things with no glimmer of consciousness, and so on.

   1. (programming) To exit a loop, function, etc. ending its execution before it has reached its terminating condition.
      • 2009, Rakesh Tyata, A Step in Programming with C, →ISBN, page 48:

        Jump out of a loop completely under certain conditions, thereby terminating the execution of a loop.

2. (idiomatic, by extension) To be obviously, noticeably different; to capture an observer's attention at once.
   • 2008, Dennis Day, Barbie Dollhouse Plan Traditional, →ISBN, page 48:

     If your wallpaper has green and red in it and you put a red carpet in the room then the red jumps out.

   • 2013, Ted Kosmatka, Prophet of Bones: A Novel, →ISBN, page 110:

     If you're ever in a situation where you need to make a quick educated guess, that rule of thumb is this. When you look at a skull for the first time, ask yourself what the first thing you notice is. The very first thing. What jumps out at you?

   All are class acts, but Mary's picture jumps out as the best overall.

3. (slang, transitive) To expel (a member) from a criminal gang by beating them up.

   Antonym: jump in

4. (slang, African-American Vernacular) To be unfaithful; to cheat on a partner.
5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see jump,‎ out.
   • 2003, Manny Garcia, An Accidental Soldier: Memoirs of a Mestizo in Vietnam, →ISBN, page 50:

     I was wondering what the hell I was thinking when I thought I wanted to jump out of airplanes.

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