jet
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈd͡ʒɛt/
rhymes: -ɛt
Forms: form: jets
form: jetting
form: jetted
form: jetted
Etymology: Borrowed from French jet (“spurt”, literally “a throw”), from Old French get, giet, from Vulgar Latin *iectus, jectus, from Latin iactus (“a throwing, a throw”), from iacere (“to throw”). See abject, ejaculate, gist, jess, jut. Cognate with Spanish echar.
Senses: glosses: To spray out of a container.
examples: text: Farmers may either dip or jet sheep with chemicals.
glosses: To spray with liquid from a container.
glosses: To travel on a jet aircraft or otherwise by jet propulsion
glosses: To move (running, walking etc.) rapidly around
examples: text: The Town has the outer Branch of the River behind it, and the Harbour before it, jetting into which latter are cloſe Keys for the weighing and receiving of Cuſtomage on Merchandize, and for the meeting and conferring of Merchants and Traders.
ref: 1724, Charles Johnson [pseudonym], “Of Captain Bartho[lomew] Roberts, and His Crew”, in A General History of the Pyrates, […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for, and sold by T. Warner, […], →OCLC, page 214:
glosses: To shoot forward or out; to project; to jut out.
examples: text: Why, lords, and think you not how dangerous
It is to jet upon a prince’s right?
ref: c. 1588–1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Lamentable Tragedy of Titus Andronicus”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i]:
text: Contemplation makes a rare turkey-cock of him: how he jets under his advanced plumes!
ref: c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene v]:
glosses: To strut; to walk with a lofty or haughty gait; to be insolent; to obtrude.
examples: 1719, Richard Wiseman, Serjeant-Chirurgeon to King Charles II, Eight Chirurgical Treatises, London: B. Tooke et al., 5th edition, Volume 2, Book 5, Chapter 4, p. 78,
A Lady was wounded down the whole Length of the Forehead to the Nose […] It happened to her travelling in a Hackney-Coach, upon the jetting whereof she was thrown out of the hinder Seat against a Bar of Iron in the forepart of the Coach.
glosses: To jerk; to jolt; to be shaken.
examples: text: The cure is to jet the carburetor excessively rich so that the mixture will be correct at the top end, but this richens the curve throughout the RPM range.
ref: 1970, Bill Fisher, How to Hotrod Volkswagen Engines, page 30:
glosses: To adjust the fuel to air ratio of a carburetor; to install or adjust a carburetor jet
examples: text: Gotta jet. See you tomorrow.
text: Pimp prolly jetted before the girl hit the ground good, and if Smoove was still standing on the porch when his brother got downstairs, he'd taken off with him.
ref: 2006, Noire [pseudonym], Thug-A-Licious: An Urban Erotic Tale, New York, N.Y.: One World, Ballantine Books, →ISBN, page 106:
glosses: To leave; depart.
Derived terms: jettingly