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Definition of jump through hoops
jump through hoops
verb
- to perform unnecessary tasks to get a goal accomplished.
This doctor has been making me jump through hoops just to see a specialist for my heart.
Last edited on Mar 12 2014. Submitted by Anonymous on Mar 12 2014.
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Other terms relating to 'hoop': | |
| Definitions include: Screwed up, not going according to planned. | |
| Definitions include: basketball. | |
| Definitions include: to play basketball. | |
Other terms relating to 'jump': | |
| Definitions include: to get an earlier start than one. | |
| Definitions include: Feeling the urge to have a bowel movement. | |
| Definitions include: exclamation when something is all screwed up | |
| Definitions include: to engage in intimate physical contact, usually intercourse. Also jump (one's) bones. | |
| Definitions include: to not appear as required as a condition of bail. | |
| Definitions include: a person who jumps down - i.e. performs oral sex. | |
| Definitions include: a female who greatly enjoys oral sex. | |
| Definitions include: gym shoes. | |
| Definitions include: general exclamation. | |
| Definitions include: to work closely with someone. | |
| Definitions include: new and cool.. | |
| Definitions include: to criticize. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer a task or experience in order to shield other members of some group from the displeasure; "take one for the team". | |
| Definitions include: to engage in sexual physical contact, usually intercourse. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer a task or experience in order to shield other members of some group from the displeasure; "take one for the team". | |
Other terms relating to 'through': | |
| Definitions include: to use up. | |
| Definitions include: having great oral sex skills. | |
| Definitions include: to tarnish a person's reputation. | |
| Definitions include: extremely fast. | |
| Definitions include: to accidentally defecate. | |
| Definitions include: to understand. | |
| Definitions include: to go through a rough patch, i.e. a difficult time. | |
| Definitions include: to suffer a great ordeal. | |
| Definitions include: to do something out of obligation rather than desire, without devoting any significant effort. | |
| Definitions include: to become very high. | |
| Definitions include: acronym for "heard through". | |
| Definitions include: used to express the amount of effort required to accomplish a task that needs to be completed ahead of schedule. | |
| Definitions include: to tell a big lie. | |
| Definitions include: quickly. | |
| Definitions include: quickly. | |
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