Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of verb get_the_jump

1 sense of get the jump

Sense 1
get the jump -- (be there first; "They had gotten the jump on their competitors")
       => beat, beat out, crush, shell, trounce, vanquish -- (come out better in a competition, race, or conflict; "Agassi beat Becker in the tennis championship"; "We beat the competition"; "Harvard defeated Yale in the last football game")