jumbo
Syllables: jum·bo/ˈd͡ʒʌmbəʊ//ˈd͡ʒʌmboʊ/
jumbo adjective: especially large or powerful. Also the ellipsis of mumbo jumbo.
Adjective
jumbo (not comparable)
Noun (1)
jumbo (countable and uncountable, plural jumbos)
- An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- I purchased a vine, and was rather impressed with the appearance of the grape; so I took the time to go down to see the vine, the Jumbo [a cultivar of muscadine, Vitis rotundifolia], and I saw a very large vine, trained on an arbor, perhaps covering a space of fifteen to twenty feet square, with...[1894 December 12, “Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Annual Meeting of the Ohio State Horticultural Society, Held at McCoy Post Hall, Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, December 12th, 1894”, in Forty-ninth...
- It is important to realise that slabbing may occur at any stage of the processing of a jumbo [large roll of paper from which smaller rolls are cut]. Typically slabbing becomes necessary when the reel being wound up has reached its required length and the jumbo has only a small contiguous length...2002, Appita Journal: Journal of the Technical Association of the Australian and New Zealand Pulp and Paper Industry, volume 55, Parkville, Vic.: Technical Association of the Australian and New...
- An elephant.
- A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- In all three tunnels the full face was drilled at once. […] [T]he mucking machine was immediately converted into a drilling jumbo upon completion of the mucking operation. Both jumbos carried all the posts and bars necessary for the mounting in any desired position of four automatic DA-30 drifters.1942 January, H. E. Robinson, “Tucumcari Tunnel Construction”, in The Reclamation Era, volume 32, number 1, Washington, D.C.: Bureau of Reclamation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 11, column 3
- The curtailment of drilling because of a disruption of the loading cycle is far less likely with the jumbo than with post and tripod drilling, because from three to five working places are available to the jumbo, whereas only one or, at the most, two faces can be worked by one crew with the old...1946, Mine and Quarry Engineering, London: Electrical Press, →OCLC, page 67
- Synonyms:
- drilling jumbo
- A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- Take a jumbo ’cross the water (Like to see America)1979, Breakfast in America, w:Supertramp
- Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
- Synonyms:
- bologna
- A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- In the unwind area, one system loads and unloads the unwind stand almost simultaneously. The jumbo is stored ahead of the unwind on level rails.1979, Paper Trade Journal (volume 163, issues 13-24, page 74)
Proper noun capitalized: Jumbo
Jumbo
Noun (2) capitalized: JUMBO
JUMBO (plural JUMBOs)
- Alternative form of JuMBO
Noun (3) capitalized: JuMBO
JuMBO (plural JuMBOs)
Also used as
jumbo is also the ellipsis of mumbo jumbo.
jumbo meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
jumbo in Hindi
- जंबो, जम्बो, जाम्बो
jumbo in Tamil
- ஜம்போ, ஜாம்போ, ஜஂபோ
jumbo in Marathi
- जंबो, जाम्बो, जंबू
jumbo in Urdu
- جمبو
More languagesFewer languages
- jumbo in Bengali
- জাম্বো
- jumbo in Telugu
- జంబో
- jumbo in Malayalam
- ജംബോ, ജമ്പോ
- jumbo in Kannada
- ಜಂಬೋ, ಜಂಬೊ, ಜಂಬು
- jumbo in Punjabi
- ਜੰਬੋ, ਜੁੰਬੋ
- jumbo in Gujarati
- જંબો, જમ્બો, જામ્બો
- jumbo in Odia
- ଜମ୍ବୋ, ଜଂବୋ, ଜାମ୍ବୋ
- jumbo in Nepali
- जम्बो, जंबो
- jumbo in Arabic
- جامبو
Examples of jumbo in a sentence
- Of the receipts of unshelled peanuts only a few extras are now being bought, the remainder being divided rather equally between jumbo and fancy grades.1941 September, Harold J[ohnson] Clay, “Secondary Distribution”, in Marketing Peanuts and Peanut Products (Miscellaneous Publication; no....
- Not only did Jumbo-mania make [Phineas Taylor] Barnum a jumbo profit, but the word "jumbo" entered the English language.1989 May, Nino Lo Bello, “Jumbo the Great Saves a Friend”, in William B. McMorris, editor, Boys’ Life, Irving, Tx.: Boy Scouts of America...
- As the name suggests, jumbo frames are frames with a larger size compared to the standard MTU [maximum transmission unit].2015, Zafar Gilani, Abdul Salam, Salman Ul Haq, “Diagnosis and Performance Monitoring”, in Deploying and Managing a Cloud Infrastructure...
- It is important to realise that slabbing may occur at any stage of the processing of a jumbo [large roll of paper from which smaller rolls are cut].2002, Appita Journal: Journal of the Technical Association of the Australian and New Zealand Pulp and Paper Industry, volume 55, Parkville...
Synonyms of jumbo
- drilling jumbo
- bologna
- Jupiter-mass binary object
Forms of jumbo
| plural | jumbos |
|---|---|
| plural | JUMBOs |
| plural | JuMBOs |
Origin of jumbo
From Jumbo (1860–1885), the name given to a large African elephant from East Africa that was purchased in 1882 by American showman P. T. Barnum (1810–1891) for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus. Compare Swahili jambo (“matter, thing”) and jumbe (“chief, headman”).
From (mumbo) jumbo.
From jumbo, from the 19th-century elephant, Jumbo, from Swahili jumbe (“chief”) jambo (“thing”)
Words formed from jumbo
Phrases with jumbo
Words that rhyme with jumbo
Questions about jumbo
- What does jumbo mean?
- Jumbo means especially large or powerful.
- What is jumbo in Hindi?
- Jumbo in Hindi is जंबो, जम्बो, जाम्बो. See Jumbo meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use jumbo in a sentence?
- Of the receipts of unshelled peanuts only a few extras are now being bought, the remainder being divided rather equally between jumbo and fancy grades.
- What part of speech is jumbo?
- Jumbo can be an adjective, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce jumbo?
- Jumbo is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌmbəʊ/ (UK).
Words near jumbo in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: jumbo (page history and authors); Jumbo (page history and authors); JUMBO (page history and authors); JuMBO (page history and authors); jumbo (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumbo (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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