cross a street against a traffic light or in an area where there is no crosswalk
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Jaywalk Definition from Language, Idioms & Slang Dictionaries & Glossaries
Verb
1. cross the road at a red light
(hypernym) traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across
(derivation) jaywalker
Jaywalk Definition from Encyclopedia Dictionaries & Glossaries
Jaywalking is an informal term commonly used in North America to refer to illegal or reckless pedestrian crossing of a roadway. Examples include a pedestrian crossing between intersections (outside or, in some jurisdictions, also inside a marked or unmarked crosswalk) without yielding to drivers and starting to cross a crosswalk at a signalized intersection without waiting for a permissive indication to be displayed. In the United States, state statutes generally reflect the Uniform Vehicle Code in requiring drivers to yield the right of way to pedestrians at crosswalks; at other locations, crossing pedestrians are either required to yield to drivers or, under some conditions, are prohibited from crossing.
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