Jumper

Quick meaning: Jumper is a noun meaning Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

Meaning

Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.

More Meanings

1. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
2. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
3. (rail transport) An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
4. (electricity) A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
5. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
6. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider.
7. 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.

Example Sentences

Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

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

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.

Word Forms

• jumpers
• jumpering
• jumpered

Synonyms for jumper

Depending on context, synonyms include pinafore, pinny.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include pinny, pinafore, polo, jump, paratrooper, footbridge.

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