Associations to the word «Jumpstart»

Wiktionary

JUMPSTART, noun. Alternative form of jump-start
JUMPSTART, verb. Alternative form of jump-start

Dictionary definition

JUMPSTART, noun. Starting an automobile engine that has a weak battery by means of jumper cables to another car; "my battery was dead so I had to get a jumpstart from my neighbor".
JUMPSTART, verb. Start (a car engine whose battery is dead) by connecting it to another car's battery.
JUMPSTART, verb. Start or re-start vigorously; "The Secretary of State intends to jumpstart the Middle East Peace Process".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope