Meaning of puddle-jump | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A short airplane flight
   attributive, usually
2. A short trip by boat.
   attributive, usually
3. A small difference.
   attributive, usually

Examples

“We've waited longer than that for space for a puddle-jump in the U. S.”

“And the flight was a long puddle-jump: three-and-a-half hours to Marquette (another Upper Peninsula town), and a layover there before continuing to Hancock.”

“The cheap-ticketed puddle-jump makes skipping down to PF, a perfect battery charger, but with gaping barrels, tropical water and a tenth of the scene that Hawaii attracts, it's not a bad go for those Westerners willing to endure a sight.”

“It was no puddle-jump to the next harbor — the water route curved north and west around a peninsula of land marked Punta Eugenia.”

“Many baseball players have openly used androstenedione, a muscle-building compound that major league baseball hasn't banned even though it's merely a molecular puddle-jump from anabolic steroids.”

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