jaywalking

An act of behaving as a jaywalker.

Noun

  1. An act of behaving as a jaywalker.
    • […] when he had felt unhappy over a movie theater large enough to contain ten times the population of Schoenstrom, and been cursed by a policeman for jaywalking, and had passed a hotel entirely full of diplomats and...
    • For decades in this country, California was the national capital of jaywalking enforcement. - 2021 January 13, Alan Ehrenhalt, “Jaywalking and the Dilemma of ‘Victimless’ Crimes”, in Governing, archived from the...

Origin

Back-formation from jaywalker. Analyzable as jaywalk + -ing, or jay (“a stupid person”) + walking.

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of jaywalk

Origin

Etymology tree English jaywalk English -ing English jaywalking From jaywalk + -ing.