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单词 queue-jump
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queue-jumpv.

Brit. /ˈkjuːdʒʌmp/, U.S. /ˈkjuˌdʒəmp/
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: queue n., jump v.
Etymology: < queue n. + jump v., after queue-jumping n. and to jump the queue at jump v. 10c.
Originally and chiefly British.
1. transitive. To push in front of (a person or persons) in a queue. Also figurative: to obtain unfair priority over (another or others).
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1969 C. Glyn Tree ii. 24 The people she had queue-jumped had a glimpse of her.
1976 Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 3/8 Shop stewards complained that the women had queue jumped a union waiting list of people wanting to become ferry drivers.
1993 Canoeist Dec. 10/2 Something like a hundred trucks had got there before us. David queue jumped them all and parked right at the front.
2. intransitive. To push forward out of one's turn in a queue; to engage in queue-jumping (literal and figurative).
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > forward movement > move forward or advance [verb (intransitive)] > out of one's turn in a queue
queue-jump1973
1973 Listener 6 Sept. 298/3 News reports of Asians who were trying to ‘queue-jump’ into Britain.
1975 J. Pidgeon Flame i. 7 Daniels, having queue-jumped up the crowded stairs..gazed out above the lowered, pebbled window.
1989 J. Sullivan Only Fools & Horses (2000) II. 6th Ser. Episode 5. 106/2 Once your competitors get an inkling that you're going down the pan, they start queue-jumping to pull the chain.
2004 Independent (Compact ed.) 27 Jan. 16/2 After filling up with petrol he ‘queue-jumped.’
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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