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 #2 (permalink) Sat Apr 12, 2008 13:28 pm what is jaywalking? |
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Click here: jaywalk
By the way, I do not consider the word 'jaywalking' to be slang. Not in AmE, anyway.
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| #3 (permalink) Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:04 am what is jaywalking? |
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| Is a jaywalking the pedestrian who cross the streat places where it is forbidden? |
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| #4 (permalink) Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:06 am what is jaywalking? |
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| I meant jaywalker,sorry and thanks in advance. |
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| #5 (permalink) Sat Jan 22, 2011 0:22 am what is jaywalking? |
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Hello Yankee
I bought the latest edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary where the idioms are enumerating. But jaywalk is that's all:
jaywalk /v/(i) to walk along or across a street illegally without paying attention to the traffic.
jaywalker /n/
jaywalking /n/(U) |
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| #6 (permalink) Tue Jan 25, 2011 11:24 am what is jaywalking? |
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| Kati Svaby wrote: |
Hello Yankee
I bought the latest edition of Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary where the idioms are enumerating. But jaywalk is that's all:
jaywalk /v/(i) to walk along or across a street illegally without paying attention to the traffic.jaywalker /n/
jaywalking /n/(U) |
Hi,
I went through this word a while back and I thought that ''jaywalking'' was merely for people who they cross the street without using the crosswalk. |
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| #7 (permalink) Tue Jan 25, 2011 20:28 pm what is jaywalking? |
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Hi,
I see that everybody agree that to jaywalk is when everybody crosses the streat illegally this means he/she doesn't use the zebra crossing, doesn't take into consideration the traffic lights etc. For this the person can be fined by the policeman.
The question was that whether it is an idiomatic expression or not. Till now nobody find an example that it would be an idiomatic expression. |
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| #8 (permalink) Tue Jan 25, 2011 20:43 pm what is jaywalking? |
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It's not idiomatic, Kati. It is a standard word.
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| #9 (permalink) Tue Jan 25, 2011 21:21 pm what is jaywalking? |
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| Thanks Bz. |
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| #10 (permalink) Wed Jan 26, 2011 5:48 am what is jaywalking? |
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Yes,
It's very common.. and Formal .. |
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