puddle jump

noun 8
verb 9
forms 6

noun8

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A jump over or into a puddle.
- Karen Cornell Wilson Kenya's big red boots were ... great for puddle jumps. — 1975
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A short airplane flight (in a puddle jumper).
- Just a white-knuckled puddle jump away lies the stunningly beautiful. relatively unvisited islands of Samoa. — 2009
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[before a noun] A short airplane flight
- We've waited longer than that for space for a puddle-jump in the U. S. — 1947
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A short trip by boat, especially one that remains close to shore.
- The first time I saw cloudberries on a portage was early on, after several hard short portages and puddle jumps. — 1987
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[before a noun] A short trip by boat.
- It was no puddle-jump to the next harbor — the water route curved north and west around a peninsula of land marked Punta Eugenia. — 1986
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A small difference.
- Shepard concluded: ". . . he puts it over as show business, tinkling the piano, puckering and mugging as he goes and making the generation gap seem little more than a puddle jump. — 1969
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[before a noun] A small difference.
- Many baseball players have openly used androstenedione, a muscle-building compound that major league baseball hasn't banned even though it's merely a molecular puddle-jump from anabolic steroids. — 2007
[before a noun] Alternative form of puddle jump.

verb9

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To jump over or into puddles.
- Not wanting to puddle jump across the parking lot if I didn't have to, I reached for my cell phone and called the club, only to get a busy signal. — 2002
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To take a short flight (on a puddle jumper).
- I was concerned that you couldn't get into La Paz at 13,000 feet, and had to go over into Lima and puddle jump out of Lima into La Paz. — 1963
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To take a short flight.
- Or suppose at that early hour he'd been forced to fly into Chicago; would he puddle-jump in on a commuter flight or rent a car for the four-hour drive? — 1984
To take a short trip by boat, especially one that remains lose to shore
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To take a short trip by boat
- Since we normally puddle-jump close inshore, what is needed is one that puts out a nice narrow pencil of ultrasonic energy ahead. — 1952
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To jump over or into puddles.
- God wades through the oceans (Job 38:16) like a schoolboy might puddle-jump in his rubber boots while the stars sing at the sunrise of a new day (Job 38:7). — 2016
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To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.
- States will no longer be able to "puddle jump" among aid categories in order to take advantage of the more general federal matching formulas in some programs. — 1975
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To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.
- Without a clear set of objectives and a plan for achieving them, you can only puddle-jump from one task to another, leaving lots of things half finished. — 1993
Alternative form of puddle jump.

forms

puddle jumped · puddle-jumped · puddle jumping · puddle-jumping · puddle jumps · puddle-jumps