get the jump

1. 1.

   be there first

   “They had gotten the jump on their competitors”

   Broaderbeat

Questions about get the jump

What does get the jump mean?

get the jump means "be there first".

Is get the jump a common word?

get the jump is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.