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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. A short airplane flight (in a puddle jumper).
    • Just a white-knuckled puddle jump away lies the stunningly beautiful. relatively unvisited islands of Samoa.2009, Andrew Zimmern, The Bizarre Truth, →ISBN, page 15
  2. A jump over or into a puddle.
    • Karen Cornell Wilson Kenya's big red boots were ... great for puddle jumps.1975, Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel - Volume 77, page 2000
  3. A short trip by boat, especially one that remains close to shore.
    • The first time I saw cloudberries on a portage was early on, after several hard short portages and puddle jumps.1987, Common Lives, Lesbian Lives - Issues 21-24, page 114
  4. A small difference.
    • Shepard concluded: ". . . he puts it over as show business, tinkling the piano, puckering and mugging as he goes and making the generation gap seem little more than a puddle jump.1969, The Many Worlds of Music

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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. puddle pirate
  8. puddle pirates
  9. puddle up
  10. puddle-hound
  11. puddle-hounds

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