jumpstart

1. 1.

   starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car

   “my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor”

   Synonymsjump-start

   Broaderaction

Other forms of jumpstart

plural

jumpstarts·

past tense

jumpstarted·

present participle

jumpstarting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about jumpstart

What does jumpstart mean?

jumpstart means "start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in jumpstart?

jumpstart has 2 syllables: jump-start. The stress falls on "jump". In IPA it is /ˈdʒʌmpˌstɑɹt/.

What is another word for jumpstart?

Close synonyms include jump-start, jump, jump-start, jump-start. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jumpstart a common word?

jumpstart 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.

What rhymes with jumpstart?

3 words rhyme with jumpstart. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.