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yump

yump verb: to leave the ground briefly when driving over a ridge at high speed.

Verb

yump (third-person singular simple present yumps, present participle yumping, simple past and past participle yumped)

  1. (intransitive) To leave the ground briefly when driving over a ridge at high speed.

Forms of yump

third-person singular presentyumps
present participleyumping
past participleyumped
pastyumped

Origin of yump

From jump, as mispronounced by Scandinavians, according to a book by Tony Gardiner.

Questions about yump

What does yump mean?
Yump means to leave the ground briefly when driving over a ridge at high speed.
What part of speech is yump?
Yump is a verb.
What is the past tense of yump?
The past tense of yump is yumped.

Words near yump in the dictionary

  1. yummy mummy
  2. yummy-licious
  3. yummylicious
  4. Yumnam
  5. yumoji
  6. yump
  7. yumped
  8. yumpie
  9. yumpies
  10. yumping
  11. Yumpla Tok

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