jump someone's bones

verb

"jump-someone-s-bones" is a 17-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.

The verdict

“jump someone's bones” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

Unranked
below top-frequency English
20
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.

Corpus desk

Index EN-jump-someone-s-bones · jump someone's bones · English

jump someone's bones · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
  • LEN-MEGA 20 letters
  • VOW-7 7 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-THIN "J" thin
  • PHOTO-UNK Peer pending

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Key facts for jump someone's bones
PropertyValue
Headwordjump someone's bones
LanguageEnglish
Part of speechVerb
Letters20
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Long-tail rank of “jump someone's bones” in English

jump someone's bonessits beyond the 100,000 most-frequent English words, in the long tail of technical, archaic, or otherwise rare vocabulary where spelling doubt tends to strike hardest.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

jump someone's bones is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for jump someone's bones in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct English form is jump someone's bones, spelled J-U-M-P- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -B-O-N-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    To have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.
  2. 2
    To attack someone suddenly.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how jump someone's bones appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. “He’ll jump my bones in bed,” one fat woman explained to us about her current lover, “but he won’t take me out in public. At least the sex is great!”
  2. His bruises from the fight did funny things to her womanly instincts. She couldn't decide whether to say “poor baby” or jump his bones.

This word in other languages

Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "jump someone's bones"?
"jump someone's bones" is spelled J-U-M-P- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -B-O-N-E-S.
What does "jump someone's bones" mean?
As a verb, "jump someone's bones" means: To have sex with someone; to initiate the physical move.
What language does "jump someone's bones" come from?
"jump someone's bones" is a English word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list