English

Noun

autodefenestration ‎(uncountable)

1. (rare, nonce word) The act of hurling oneself from a window.
   • 1986, Rich Relations (in New York Magazine, volume 19, number 18)

     She climbs out on a window ledge and threatens autodefenestration if the marriage isn't contracted, and is soon joined on the ledge by Jill.

   • 2002, Ian Lauchlan, Russian hide-and-seek: the tsarist secret police in St. Petersburg, 1906-1914

     Ipana, a leading practitioner of feline-autodefenestration, also helped, I think.

   • 1995, Denis Ashton Warner, Wake me if there's trouble

     ...Lindesay had the misfortune to fall out of a window, which elicited from the Times a memorable cable, which said simply: 'Cease autodefenestration.'