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jump ship

jump ship verb: to depart from a ship, especially without permission.

Verb

jump ship (third-person singular simple present jumps ship, present participle jumping ship, simple past and past participle jumped ship)

  1. To depart from a ship, especially without permission.
    • As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.
  2. (figuratively) To leave something, especially suddenly or rapidly.
    • I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia.
    • The few stalwarts praising the prime minister’s non-remorse today will be of small comfort to him, given their ranks include Ann Widdecombe and Patrick O’Flynn of the Express, while another of their ilk, the Telegraph’s Allison Pearson, has jumped ship altogether.2022 January 13, Polly Toynbee, “Finally the Tory papers have caught on that Johnson is a liar – what kept them?”, in The Guardian

jump ship meaning in Tamil and Urdu

jump ship in Tamil

கப்பலை விட்டுச் செல்லல்

jump ship in Urdu

جہاز کو ترک کرنا

Forms of jump ship

third-person singular presentjumps ship
present participlejumping ship
past participlejumped ship
pastjumped ship

Questions about jump ship

What does jump ship mean?
Jump ship means to depart from a ship, especially without permission.
What is jump ship in Tamil?
Jump ship in Tamil is கப்பலை விட்டுச் செல்லல். See Jump ship meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is jump ship?
Jump ship is a verb.
What is the past tense of jump ship?
The past tense of jump ship is jumped ship.

Words near jump ship in the dictionary

  1. jump scaring
  2. jump seat
  3. jump seats
  4. jump server
  5. jump servers
  6. jump ship
  7. jump shot
  8. jump shots
  9. jump sole
  10. jump someone's bones
  11. jump spark

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Adapted from Wiktionary: jump ship (page history and authors); jump ship (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); jump ship (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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