Usually means: Initiated or energized a process quickly.
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  1. jump-started: Merriam-Webster
  2. jump-started, jump-started: Collins English Dictionary
  3. jump-started: Vocabulary.com
  4. jump-started: Wordnik
  5. jump-started: Wiktionary
  6. jump-started: Dictionary.com
  7. jump-started: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See jump-start as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jump-start)

verb:  (transitive) To start a motor vehicle by passing an electrical current from a charged battery to the discharged ("dead" or "flat") battery of the vehicle being started, by using booster cables to temporarily connect the two batteries in parallel, or by using a hotshot.
verb:  (transitive, figuratively) To reactivate or rejuvenate.
noun:  The process or result of jump-starting a motor vehicle.
noun:  (sports) A false start.
▸ Also see jump-start


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