jump-off point

English

Noun

jump-off point (plural jump-off points)

1. Alternative form of jumping-off point
   • 1980 August 30, Jan R. Fielding, “Iron Bras & Virgin Births Mar Feminist Science Fiction”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 6, page 8:

     [The story] "Equal Rights" is also fine — and realistic! — as far as it goes. But I wished it were longer, that this had been the jump-off point for a more involved work.