jay-walkingとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

jaywalking (uncountable)

1. An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
   • 1919, Sinclair Lewis, Free Air, New York, N.Y.: Harcourt, Brace and Company, page 257:

     […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and marble and caviare […]

   • 2021 January 13, Alan Ehrenhalt, “Jaywalking and the Dilemma of ‘Victimless’ Crimes”, in Governing‎, archived from the original on 4 March 2021:

     For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement.

語源 2

From jaywalk +‎ -ing.

動詞

jaywalking

1. present participle and gerund of jaywalk