English Dictionary

puddle-jump

verb

To take a short flight. / To jump over or into puddles. / To take a short trip by boat / To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.

I love to puddle-jump when it rains.

意味（1）

To take a short flight.

Or suppose at that early hour he'd been forced to fly into Chicago; would he puddle-jump in on a commuter flight or rent a car for the four-hour drive?

意味（2）

To jump over or into puddles.

God wades through the oceans (Job 38:16) like a schoolboy might puddle-jump in his rubber boots while the stars sing at the sunrise of a new day (Job 38:7).

意味（3）

To take a short trip by boat

Since we normally puddle-jump close inshore, what is needed is one that puts out a nice narrow pencil of ultrasonic energy ahead.

意味（4）

To move a small distance; to go from one small thing to another.

Without a clear set of objectives and a plan for achieving them, you can only puddle-jump from one task to another, leaving lots of things half finished.