"jumpscare" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "jump + scare",
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          "ref": "2011 January 27, [ste parker], “Re: BA Alan Wake”, in uk.games.video.misc (Usenet)",
          "text": "I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare.",
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          "ref": "2011, Justin Mancini, \"'Paranormal Activity 3' delivers more of the same scares\", The Signal (College of New Jersey), Volume 135, Number 8, 20 October 2011, page 21",
          "text": "Do you like jumpscares? Well then, here's your movie!"
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          "ref": "2013, Patrick Shanahan, \"Insidious Chapter 2 Falls Flat\", The Record (Saint Louis Priory School), Volume 44, Issue 5, 27 September 2013, page 6",
          "text": "It seemed that for every legitimate moment of tension and terror caused by Wan's brilliant style of camerawork (of which there surprisingly weren't many), there was a cheap jumpscare that just made you think: “Did they really just do that to me?”"
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          "text": "I sit shaking in fear and shock from the horrible jumpscare.",
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          "ref": "2011, Justin Mancini, \"'Paranormal Activity 3' delivers more of the same scares\", The Signal (College of New Jersey), Volume 135, Number 8, 20 October 2011, page 21",
          "text": "Do you like jumpscares? Well then, here's your movie!"
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          "text": "It seemed that for every legitimate moment of tension and terror caused by Wan's brilliant style of camerawork (of which there surprisingly weren't many), there was a cheap jumpscare that just made you think: “Did they really just do that to me?”"
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