What does jaywalking mean?
Jaywalking means An act of behaving as a jaywalker..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
An act of behaving as a jaywalker..
[…] 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[…
For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement.
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Jaywalking means An act of behaving as a jaywalker..
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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[…
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