puddle jump

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.
  2. A jump over or into a puddle.
    — Karen Cornell Wilson Kenya's big red boots were ... great for puddle jumps.
  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.
  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.
动词 v.
  1. To take a short flight (on a puddle jumper).
    — I was concerned that you couldn't get into La Paz at 13,000 feet, and had to go over into Lima and puddle jump out of Lima into La Paz.
  2. To jump over or into puddles.
    — Not wanting to puddle jump across the parking lot if I didn't have to, I reached for my cell phone and called the club, only to get a busy signal.
  3. To take a short trip by boat, especially one that remains lose to shore
    — There are some dandy short cuts up there, if you don't mind puddle jumping. If you figure tide and current right, sometimes you can jump a puddle in a couple of good jumps, with the breakers boosting you.
  4. To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.
    — States will no longer be able to "puddle jump" among aid categories in order to take advantage of the more general federal matching formulas in some programs.

词形变化

puddle jumps plural puddle-jump alternative puddle jumps present,singular,third-person puddle jumping participle,present puddle jumped participle,past puddle jumped past puddle-jump alternative
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