Counterjumper
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Counterjumper is a noun meaning (slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
Meaning
(slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
Example Sentences
Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
[...] 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.
Word Forms
- counterjumpers
- counter-jumper
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include handseller, salescritter, shop-bouncer, jumpster, jockey, junkman.
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