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.

Get the jump — meaning and definition

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1 senseAn action, occurrence or state of being.

1.
be there first
“They had gotten the jump on their competitors”
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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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for get the jump come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.

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