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Webster 1913 Edition


Jumper

Jump′er

,
Noun.
[See 1st
Jump
.]
1.
A loose upper garment
;
as:
(a)
A sort of blouse worn by workmen over their ordinary dress to protect it.
(b)
A fur garment worn in Arctic journeys.

Webster 1828 Edition


Jumper

JUMP'ER

,
Noun.
One who jumps.

Definition 2024


jumper

jumper

English

Noun

jumper (plural jumpers)

  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.
    • 2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
      Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
  3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
  4. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
  5. 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.
  6. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of J. F. Cooper to this entry?)
  7. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider
  8. The larva of the cheese fly.
  9. (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
  10. (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
  11. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
    • 1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune:
      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.
Derived terms
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Verb

jumper (third-person singular simple present jumpers, present participle jumpering, simple past and past participle jumpered)

  1. To connect with an electrical jumper.

Etymology 2

From the term jump (short coat) in sailors' jargon, probably from Scots English jupe (man's loose jacket or tunic), from Old French, from Arabic جوبَّة; see also jibba.

Noun

jumper (plural jumpers)

  1. (chiefly Britain, Australia) A woolen 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.
  4. (usually as jumpers) Rompers.
Translations

Portuguese

Noun

jumper m (plural jumpers)

  1. jumper (short length of electrical conductor)