Usually means: Crossing street outside designated crosswalks.
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General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. jaywalk: Merriam-Webster
  2. jaywalk: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jaywalk: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jaywalk: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jaywalk: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jaywalk, jaywalk: Wordnik
  7. jaywalk: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jaywalk: Wiktionary
  9. jaywalk: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jaywalk: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jaywalk: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jaywalk: Dictionary.com
  13. jaywalk: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. The Jaywalk: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. jaywalk: Rhymezone
  16. jaywalk: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. jaywalk: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jaywalk: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. Jaywalk: The Word Detective
  20. jaywalk: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. jaywalk: Merriam-Webster Legal Dictionary
  2. Travel Industry Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jaywalk: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See jaywalked as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (jaywalk)

verb:  (chiefly US, law, automotive, transitive, intransitive) To behave as a jaywalker; to violate pedestrian traffic regulations by crossing a street away from a designated crossing or to walk in the part of the street intended for vehicles rather than on the sidewalk.

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