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jump up

verb
  1. To move from one position to a higher position by one jump. · I jumped up onto the top of the wall.
  2. To criticize or rebuke.
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Mowgli picked up some creepers and began to work them in and out, and the monkeys tried to imitate; but in a very few minutes they lost interest and began to pull their friends’ tails or jump up and down on all fours, coughing.
The Jungle Book, p. 49 · B2
“The boy is safe, and it was I--I--I that caught Nag by the hood last night in the bathroom.” Then he began to jump up and down, all four feet together, his head close to the floor.
The Jungle Book, p. 81 · B2

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