jaywalk

verb

jay·walk | \ ˈjā-ˌwȯk

jaywalked; jaywalking; jaywalks

Definition of jaywalk

intransitive verb

: to cross a street carelessly or in an illegal manner so as to be endangered by traffic

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Examples of jaywalk in a Sentence

The police officer warned us not to jaywalk.

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These tools range from facial-recognition software ostensibly aimed at curbing jaywalking to nearly omnipresent surveillance cameras monitoring the county's Uighur minority. — David Grossman, Popular Mechanics, "Google Employees Sign Protest Letter Against Secretive Chinese Search Engine," 27 Nov. 2018 Eliminating jaywalking and similar offenses won’t lead to anarchy on American roads. — Matt Ford, The New Republic, "The Case Against Jaywalking Laws," 12 Mar. 2018 In the body camera footage, Hickman and then-officer-in-training Verino Ruggiero were seen in the cruiser, only for one of the officers to start complaining about Rush’s jaywalking after he had been warned. — Breanna Edwards, The Root, "Walking While Black: Body Cam Footage Shows Brutal Beating of North Carolina Man over Alleged Jaywalking, Trespassing," 2 Mar. 2018 Those problems seem like jaywalking violations compared with the blatant failure of U.S.A. Gymnastics to protect its young gymnasts from a serial predator like Dr. Lawrence G. Nassar, the longtime national team doctor. — Juliet Macur, New York Times, "Who Has U.S.A. Gymnastics’ Back at This Point? The U.S.O.C., for Some Reason," 19 Jan. 2018 Data and safety experts verified that long-standing common factors in pedestrian deaths, such as alcohol and jaywalking at night, did not account for the growth. — Detroit Free Press, "Death on foot," 28 June 2018 Many who died were males, were jaywalking or had alcohol in their systems on multilane roads in urban areas at night. — Detroit Free Press, "Death on foot," 28 June 2018 Body camera video obtained by Asheville's Citizen-Times showed a second Asheville police officer warning Rush about repeatedly jaywalking at the beginning of the incident. — Bruce Henderson, charlotteobserver, "Ex-Asheville cop won't face federal charges in violent arrest of black jaywalker," 29 June 2018 In the video, the victim, Elaine Herzberg, 49, appears to be illegally jaywalking from a median strip across two lanes of traffic on a dark road. — Russ Mitchell, latimes.com, "Experts say video of Uber's self-driving car killing a pedestrian suggests its technology may have failed," 22 Mar. 2018

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