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jump the rattler (third-person singular simple present jumps the rattler, present participle jumping the rattler, simple past and past participle jumped the rattler)

  1. (Australia, slang) To travel on a train without paying the fare.
    • 1985, Peter Carey, Illywhacker, Faber and Faber, published 2003, page 269:
      Four times he jumped the rattler, his knuckles bleeding from punching walls.
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