What is another word for jaywalkers?

Pronunciation: [d͡ʒˈe͡ɪwɔːkəz] (IPA)

Jaywalkers are pedestrians who cross streets or roadways in an unlawful or unsafe manner. There are several synonyms for jaywalkers, including street-crossers, illegal walkers, reckless pedestrians, road-lawbreakers, unlawful crossers, and unauthorized walkers. Other common phrases used to describe jaywalkers include crosswalk dodgers, pedestrian rule-breakers, footpath violators, and sidewalk scofflaws. The term jaywalkers originates from the turn of the 20th century when pedestrians were considered a nuisance in the road. While jaywalking is generally prohibited in most countries, the term and its synonyms have become part of everyday language, used to describe individuals who are negligent or irresponsible when crossing the street.

What are the hypernyms for Jaywalkers?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

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  • Walking has been one of the constellations in the starry sky of human culture, a constellation whose three stars are the body, the imagination, and the wide-open world, and though all three exist independently, it is the lines drawn between them—drawn by the act of walking for cultural purposes—that makes them a constellation. Constellations are not natural phenomena but cultural impositions; the lines drawn between stars are like paths worn by the imagination of those who have gone before. This constellation called walking has a history, the history trod out by all those poets and philosophers and insurrectionaries, by jaywalkers, streetwalkers, pilgrims, tourists, hikers, mountaineers, but whether it has a future depends on whether those connecting paths are traveled still.
    Rebecca Solnit

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