jumper

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
  2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
  3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
  4. An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
  5. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
  6. 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.
  7. A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
  8. A jumping spider.
  9. The larva of the cheese fly.
  10. One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
  11. A spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
  12. A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
verb
  1. To connect with an electrical jumper.
noun
  1. A woollen sweater or pullover.
  2. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
  3. 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.
  4. Rompers.
  5. The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.
name
  1. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/ /ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/ /ˈd͡ʒʊmpə/ En-us-jumper.ogg en-au-jumper.ogg

Word forms

jumper jumpers jumpering jumpered

Etymology

From jump + -er.

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