ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Jaywalking

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Jaywalking is a noun meaning An act of behaving as a jaywalker.

Meaning

An act of behaving as a jaywalker.

More Meanings

  1. present participle and gerund of jaywalk

Example Sentences

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