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English
Etymology
From jump + scare.
Noun
jumpscare (plural jumpscares)
- Alternative spelling of jump scare
2011 January 27, , “Re: BA Alan Wake”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet):I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare.
- 2011, Justin Mancini, "'Paranormal Activity 3' delivers more of the same scares", The Signal (College of New Jersey), Volume 135, Number 8, 20 October 2011, page 21:
- Do you like jumpscares? Well then, here's your movie!
- 2013, Patrick Shanahan, "Insidious Chapter 2 Falls Flat", The Record (Saint Louis Priory School), Volume 44, Issue 5, 27 September 2013, page 6:
- It seemed that for every legitimate moment of tension and terror caused by Wan's brilliant style of camerawork (of which there surprisingly weren't many), there was a cheap jumpscare that just made you think: “Did they really just do that to me?”