jump on

Definitions

1. 1

   To board a vehicle.

   • Jump on a nº9 bus, and it will take you more or less to the door.
2. 2

   To attack verbally, to criticise excessively.

   • I hate the way she's always jumping on me for the slightest little mistake.
3. 3

   To take immediate action regarding

   To take immediate action regarding; to avail oneself of without delay.

   • Community banks can jump on the opportunity to make changes.
   • So later in life, when the Z's — and even onetime Z's who became A's through marriage — see an item they really like for sale or are offered a deal, they jump on it.

The neighborhood

• neighborget a jump on
• neighborjump at the chance