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Jumping jack   /dʒˈəmpɪŋ dʒæk/   Listen
noun
Jumping jack  n.  
1.
A toy figure of a man, jointed and made to jump or dance by means of strings or sticks attached to it.
2.
A calisthenic exercise in which a person starts in a standing position with both feet together and with the arms at the sides, then leaps into the air while moving the arms outward and upward so that the hands touch above the head, and then returns to the original position by reversing the motion of legs and hands.





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"Jumping jack" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the boys were funny, including a jumping jack on a stick to Isadore, the face of which Mercy had whittled out and painted to look a good deal like the features of that ...
— Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island - The Old Hunter's Treasure Box • Alice Emerson


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