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border jumper

border jumper noun: an undocumented immigrant.

Noun

border jumper (plural border jumpers)

  1. (derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) An undocumented immigrant
    • Secretary of Labor Davis advocates registration as an effective way of outwitting the border jumper and the smuggled alien1925, de C. Ward, Robert, “The New Immigration Law”, in James McKeen Cattell, editor, The Scientific Monthly, volume 21, New York: The Science Press, page 51
    • A record total of 87,416 border jumpers was caught last month1953, “Mexican Border Jumpers Set Two-a-Minute Mark in April”, in Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce Appropriation Bill, 1954: Hearings, Eighty-third Congress, First Session on H.R. 4974...
    1. (US, broadly, derogatory, ethnic, offensive, slur) Any Hispanic person.
      • She finally ends her rant with “You f***ing border jumper” as she pushes me back into my buggy.2019, MissMafiaa, “Border jumper?!”, in Reddit, retrieved 27 Aug 2025

Forms of border jumper

pluralborder jumpers

Questions about border jumper

What does border jumper mean?
Border jumper means an undocumented immigrant.
What part of speech is border jumper?
Border jumper is a noun.
What is the plural of border jumper?
The plural of border jumper is border jumpers.

Words near border jumper in the dictionary

  1. border fancies
  2. border fancy
  3. border gore
  4. border guard
  5. border guards
  6. border jumper
  7. border jumpers
  8. Border Leicester
  9. border morris
  10. border on
  11. border patrol

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