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bumper jack

bumper jack noun: a jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.

Noun

bumper jack (plural bumper jacks)

  1. (largely historical) A jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.
    • On level ground a safer alternative to the ordinary bumper jack is the kind with one or more legs.1971 April, “Buy an auto jack that won’t let you down”, in Changing Times, The Kiplinger Magazine
    • For us old timers; I removed their bumper jack. I placed the base under the back bumper and inserted the long notched pole into it.2012, Larry Wade Livingston, “Thank you; but!”, in Short Stories from My Heart, page 57

Forms of bumper jack

pluralbumper jacks

Questions about bumper jack

What does bumper jack mean?
Bumper jack means a jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.
What part of speech is bumper jack?
Bumper jack is a noun.
What is the plural of bumper jack?
The plural of bumper jack is bumper jacks.

Words near bumper jack in the dictionary

  1. bumper bullets
  2. bumper car
  3. bumper cars
  4. bumper crop
  5. bumper crops
  6. bumper jack
  7. bumper music
  8. bumper pool
  9. bumper sticker
  10. bumper stickers
  11. bumper to bumper

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