JUMP ON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does jump on mean? 

• JUMP ON (verb)
  The verb JUMP ON has 1 sense:

1. get up on the back of

  Familiarity information: JUMP ON used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• JUMP ON (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Get up on the back of

Classified under:

Verbs of walking, flying, swimming

Synonyms:

bestride; climb on; get on; hop on; jump on; mount; mount up

Context example:

mount a horse

Hypernyms (to "jump on" is one way to...):

move (move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "jump on"):

remount (mount again)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

 Context examples 

For herself, she did nothing but caper about in the front chambers, jump on and off the bedsteads, and lie on the mattresses and piled-up bolsters and pillows before the enormous fires roaring in the chimneys.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You would be wise not to jump on the date Mercury goes direct, March 9, for Mercury is known to make more mischief at the start and end dates of his retrograde than at other times, so wait a few days before you act.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

We'd turn the laser on and they'd jump on an object, hold it with their paws and intensively bite it as if they were trying to capture and kill it, says lead investigator and Yale Associated Professor of Psychiatry Ivan de Araujo.

(Geneticists produce laser-activated killer mice, Wikinews)

Then look round and thou wilt see a griffin, winged like bird, sitting by the Red Sea; jump on to his back with thy beloved one as quickly as possible, and he will carry you over the waters to your home.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)