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jaywalk

[ US /ˈdʒeɪˌwɔk/ ]
VERB
  1. cross the road at a red light

How To Use jaywalk In A Sentence

  • A police officer witnessed this blatant disregard for the law and attempted to ticket the student for jaywalking.
  • We reached rue Oberkampf, and the girl in the black tights was still complaining to her friend in the gray tights as they waited to jaywalk across the street, which was bustling with French students and artists whose bags, I imagined, held nineteenth century novels, or paperbacks with white covers; guitar strings, or paint brushes. Five Stops on Line 2, Ch 1: Qalb elouz
  • The reason I haven't been arrested is not because I'm white and haven't committed any of these crimes -- let's face it, I've jaywalked, littered, and loitered, which makes me a triple threat -- it's because I'm not poor. Jan Herman: Living in a Police State Is Okay
  • The police here have figured out that, instead of targeting two-wheelers, cars, auto rickshaws, buses and lorries, many accidents can be avoided if jaywalkers are kept off roads.
  • How can you dislike a town where everybody jaywalks and the libramientos are known locally as the "other cemetary" and people drive in chaotic but workable distraction and many folks are short and fat and ridiculed by the overcompensating snobbish Highlanders as redneck morons and eating and drinking and dancing are local sports. Driving From San Crist�bal de Las Casas to Lake Chapala
  • - Don't jaywalk (don't be the recipient of a car accident if its easy to avoid). James Altucher: 12 Ways to Live Forever
  • Then you might as well forget about walking to the traffic lights and just jaywalk in the middle of the street.
  • It is not like jaywalking, which is a civil traffic offense. Truth Wins Out » Blog
  • Sure, jaywalking is illegal, but nobody expects that it’ll be enforced all the time. Disorderly conduct. « Love | Peace | Ohana
  • People are always in the street, crossing against the light or jaywalking across even busy avenues or through stopped traffic.
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