Counterjumper

noun, slang

noun, slang ·Uncommon ·College level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk. dated, derogatory, slang

    "[...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper."

Synonyms

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sales clerk

Example

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"[...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper."

Etymology

From counter + jumper.

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