| 释义 |
jump-up colloq.|ˈdʒʌmpʌp|
[f. to jump up.]
1. An escarpment. local Austral.
1927M. Terry Through Land of Promise 85 We had been looking at the ‘jump-up’ marking the extremity of the Barkly Tableland. 1969‘A. Garve’ Boomerang i. 32 There's a sharpish rise from the plain to the tableland, with a steep edge—what we call the ‘jump-up’.
2. An informal West Indian dance.
1955Caribbean Q. IV. ii. 102 Children and adults dancing in the shuffling manner of the Trinidad Carnival ‘jump-up’. 1959‘M. Underwood’ Arm of Law xiv. 164 Some might be found doing a traditional mid-day jump-up. 1965‘Lauchmonen’ Old Thom's Harvest vii. 96 A few people..gathered around the calypsonian... Saul was doing a real jump-up in the centre. 1971Sunday Times 13 June 9 You have some rum and a bloody good lunch, then you have a jump-up, and a proper shindig. 1973Advocate-News (Barbados) 17 Feb. 6/1 With the carnival fever in the air, the students at the Cave Hill campus will stage their pre-carnival jump-up and calypso tent at the campus tomorrow, beginning at 5 p.m. |