Usually means: Act prematurely, without sufficient thought.
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  1. jump the_gun: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. jump the_gun: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jump the_gun: Collins English Dictionary
  4. jump the_gun: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. jump the_gun: Wiktionary
  6. jump the_gun: Dictionary.com
  7. Jump The_Gun (Pretty Maids Album), Jump the_Gun (album), Jump the_Gun (band), Jump the_Gun (film), Jump the Gun: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  8. jump the_gun: ESL Idiom Page
  9. Jump the Gun: The Word Detective
  10. jump the_gun: Dictionary/thesaurus

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jump the_gun: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jump the_gun: Urban Dictionary

Definitions from Wiktionary (jump the gun)

verb:  (sports) To begin a race too soon, before the starting gun goes off.
verb:  (idiomatic) To act or begin too soon or without due caution.
verb:  (idiomatic, finance, investing) To trade securities based on information that is not yet public; to trade on inside information.

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