Complete Definition of "jump ship"

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Verb
jump ship

  1. To part from a ship

#:As soon as the battleship docked in Singapore, Roger jumped ship, never to return.

  1. idiom To depart a project without warning.

#:I couldn't hack it as a teacher, so I jumped ship and flew back to Australia.

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