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English
Etymology
Blend of jaywalk + run. Attested since the 20th century.
Verb
jayrun (third-person singular simple present jayruns, present participle jayrunning, simple past jayran, past participle jayrun)
- (US, Canada, transitive) To rapidly jaywalk (“violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing; to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles”).
1955, Southern Reporter (second), West Publishing Company, page 769:Our appreciation of the manner in which the accident occurred was that plaintiff alighted from the bus on the uptown sidewalk of Canal Street, approximately sixty to one hundred feet removed from the corner of Baronne Street, walked around the front thereof and, probably because of the inclement weather, imprudently proceeded to rapidly “jaywalk” or “jayrun” through congested traffic intending to safely reach the neutral ground; […]
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