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    [Verb]  | "jet*ti*son" | \ ˈje-tə-sən \


    1: to get rid of as superfluous or encumbering : omit or forgo as part of a plan or as the result of some other decision

    2: to drop (cargo) to lighten a ship's load in time of distress

    3: to drop from an aircraft or spacecraft in flight

    Origin: 1848 ;

     See: {jettison:2 };

    [Noun]  | "jettison" 


    1: a voluntary sacrifice of cargo to lighten a ship's load in time of distress

    Origin: 15th century ;

     Middle English jetteson, from Anglo-French geteson, literally, action of throwing, from Latin jactation-, jactatio, from jactare;

    [Noun]  | "jettison" 


    1: the getting rid of whatever is unwanted or useless;


      * e.g., " ... with his ship rapidly sinking, the captain ordered a last-ditch jettison of much of its cargo "



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    [Verb]  | "jettison" 


    1: to get rid of as useless or unwanted;


      * e.g., " ... just jettison that plan, because we know it won't work "



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     [ "jettison" ]

    1:  To leave a location.

      * e.g.,  ... "I gotta get up early tomarrow so I'm about to jettison." 

     [ "jettison" ]

    2:  To quickly depart from a location.

     [ "jettison" ]

    3: see also: jet

     [ "jettison" ]

    1: 1: throwing up, puking

      * e.g.,  ... "man! that made me sick, i totally had to go out back and jettison!" 

     [ "jettison" ]

    2: 2: to rid your body of pretty much everything it can, usually in the form of post party vomit or shit.

      * e.g.,  ... "i partied so hard, i had spent an hour afterwards jettisoning everything!" 

     [ "Jettison" ]

    1: A fancier term for “yeet”. Often involves a mechanical object of some sort.

      * e.g.,  ... Jettison the escape pods! 

     [ "self-jettison" ]

    1: to throw yourself down to the floor

      * e.g.,  ... Stairs are often unsafe, with a high temptation to self-jettison oneself down them. 

     [ "jettison stage one" ]

    1: To take a dump, especially when great quantities of ejecta are involved.

      * e.g.,  ... to jettison stage one (expr.): 

     [ "jettison" ]

    1: This term is used commonly in Naval Aviation.

      * e.g.,  ... Yo Teeej use "Jetison" in a sentence.... 

     [ "jettison" ]

    2: I learned this one when I was in the Marines as a helicopter enlisted flight crew member

      * e.g.,  ... I used to love her like all things sweet, sugar and spice.... 

     [ "jettison" ]

    3: It simply means to throw and / or get rid of all the dead weight quickly or else we are going down

      * e.g.,  ... But she shit on me like an airplane that Jettison's Blue Ice ! 

     [ "jettison" ]

    4: into the drink / crash into the water.

     [ "jettison" ]

    5: Also commercial airplanes often will "Jettison" their toilet waste from high altitudes.

     [ "Jettison" ]

    1: To throw off board or overboard Especially in naval or aviation terms

      * e.g.,  ... I used to think of her all things sweet, 

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