What does "jumper" mean?
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
Jumper
/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- Grammar: jumper is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: sweater, amateur athlete, archer, athlete.
- Useful contrasts: jumpmaster, no connection, open circuit.
- Usage evidence: Tom always keeps a set of jumper cables in the trunk of his car.
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
- 2 A woollen sweater or pullover. Australia, British, New-Zealand
"The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)"
- 3 (basketball) a player releases the basketball at the high point of a jump wordnet
- 4 A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
"Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers."
- 5 A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
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- 6 a sleeveless dress resembling an apron; worn over other clothing wordnet
- 7 A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
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- 8 A one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore. US
- 9 a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen wordnet
- 10 An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
"For coupling between the cars of a three-car set 19 core jumpers are provided for control and auxiliary train cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits."
- 11 Rompers. plural, usually
- 12 a small connector used to make temporary electrical connections wordnet
- 13 A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
- 14 The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
- 15 a coverall worn by children wordnet
- 16 A long drilling tool used by masons and quarry workers, consisting of an iron bar with a chisel-edged steel tip at one or both ends, operated by striking it against the rock, turning it slightly with each blow.
- 17 a crocheted or knitted garment covering the upper part of the body wordnet
- 18 A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills. US
"a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego"
- 19 an athlete who competes at jumping wordnet
- 20 A jumping spider. informal
- 21 a person who jumps wordnet
- 22 The larva of the cheese fly.
- 23 One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions. historical, obsolete
- 24 A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
- 25 A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
"[Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block."
- 26 A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
"In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure."
- 27 A platform game based around jumping.
"This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero."
- 28 Ellipsis of smokejumper. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
Verb
- 1 To connect with an electrical jumper. transitive
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Synonyms
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Example
"Tom always keeps a set of jumper cables in the trunk of his car."
Common questions
What is a synonym for "jumper"?
Common synonyms include: sweater, amateur athlete, archer, athlete, athlete, baby clothes.
How do you use "jumper" in a sentence?
Tom always keeps a set of jumper cables in the trunk of his car.
How do you pronounce "jumper"?
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From jump + -er.
Etymology 2
From the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of uncertain origin. Jump is possibly from Scottish English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Middle English juype, gype, joupe, from Old French jupe, juppe, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with Middle Low German jōpe, gōpe (“waistcoat, jacket”), German Joppe (“jacket”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from jump.