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jump on

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jump on
vb
(intr, preposition) Informal to reprimand or attack suddenly and forcefully
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Verb1.jump on - get up on the back of; "mount a horse"
move - move so as to change position, perform a nontranslational motion; "He moved his hand slightly to the right"
remount - mount again; "he remounted his horse"
Translations
? jump on
vi (lit, onto vehicle) → einsteigen (→ prep obj, -to in +acc); (onto moving train, bus) → aufspringen (→ prep obj, -to auf +acc); (onto bicycle, horse) → aufsteigen (→ prep obj, -to auf +acc); to jump on(to) somebody/somethingauf jdn/etw springen; he jumped on(to) his bicycleer schwang sich auf sein Fahrrad
vi +prep obj (inf) person (= criticize)anfahren; (= attack)überfallen; suggestionkritisieren, heruntermachen (inf)


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Will you miss all I can give you, only to have a bug jump on you and drag you down?
Joseph, you calico beastie, don't you dare jump on my lap.
First they would not fit into their sockets at all, and we had to jump on them, and kick them, and hammer at them with the boat-hook; and, when they were in, it turned out that they were the wrong hoops for those particular sockets, and they had to come out again.
 
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