jump about
verb- To move erratically by jumping. · The frog jumped about in the bucket.
- To move from side to side, or fidget annoyingly, usually as a result of being nervous.
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He next tried to jump about his master as he had seen the Lapdog do, but he broke the table and smashed all the dishes upon it to atoms.
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