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puddle-jumps

puddle-jumps is the plural of puddle-jump.

puddle-jumps is the third-person singular simple present indicative of puddle-jump.

Meaning of puddle-jump

Noun

puddle-jump (plural puddle-jumps)

  1. (attributive, usually) A short airplane flight
    • We've waited longer than that for space for a puddle-jump in the U. S.1947, American Aviation - Volume 11, page 25
  2. (attributive, usually) A short trip by boat.
    • It was no puddle-jump to the next harbor — the water route curved north and west around a peninsula of land marked Punta Eugenia.1986, Valerie Fons, Keep it Moving: Baja by Canoe, page 132
  3. (attributive, usually) A small difference.
    • Many baseball players have openly used androstenedione, a muscle-building compound that major league baseball hasn't banned even though it's merely a molecular puddle-jump from anabolic steroids.2007, Eileen Daniel, Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Health and Society, →ISBN, page 265

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Questions about puddle-jumps

What is puddle-jumps the plural of?
Puddle-jumps is the plural of puddle-jump.

Words near puddle-jumps in the dictionary

  1. puddle-jump
  2. puddle-jumped
  3. puddle-jumper
  4. puddle-jumpers
  5. puddle-jumping
  6. puddle-jumps
  7. puddled
  8. puddled bar
  9. puddled bars
  10. puddled up
  11. Puddledock

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