When you cross the street through the middle and not at the intersections were you are supposed to. They call it Jay walking, because back in the 1900s in New York people new yorkers would call call tourist jays, and since jays were really impressed by all of the tall buildings they would walk up to the middle of the street to see how tall they were, therefore the word Jaywalking emerged
Joywalking: essentially the martial law equivalent to jaywalking where the prisoner takes more walks than is reasonably permitted
I was joywalking my dog until the national guard stopped me and asked why I wasn’t following the CDC’s guideline of washing my bum, spreading my legs 6 feet apart, and grabbing my ankles
"We need never had invaded Iraq and Afghanistan if the fuckers had promised not to continue their flagrant Jaywalking" - GW Bush, Road Safety Conference, Washington 2005.
The bored Amsterdam policeman - in a city world famous for its drugs, prostitution and maffia activities - sternly reprimanded the otherwise law abiding citizen for jaywalking across the empty road.