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jumper

UK/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə//ˈd͡ʒʌmpɚ/

jumper noun: someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing. Also the ellipsis of smokejumper.

jumper: someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing
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Noun (1)

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.
    • Field: Be advised we have jumpers, K, jumpers.
      Dispatch: Alright, Division 1, be advised, Battalion 2 advised we have jumpers from the World Trade Center, K.2001 September 11, New York City Fire Department, 11:37 from the start, in Response Tape 1 Side A, 8:46-9:31, The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021
    • Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury
  3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
    • .
    Synonyms:
    jump wire
  4. An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.
    • For coupling between the cars of a three-car set 19 core jumpers are provided for control and auxiliary train cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits.1956 December, “New Electric Trains for Mersey Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 852
  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. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
    • a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte
  8. (informal) A jumping spider.
  9. The larva of the cheese fly.
  10. (historical, obsolete) 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.
    • [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and...2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic
  13. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
    • 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.1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune
  14. A platform game based around jumping.
    • This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 161

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To connect with an electrical jumper.

Noun (2)

jumper (plural jumpers)

  1. (Australia, New Zealand, UK) A woollen sweater or pullover.
    • The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)2012 December 16, Robert Epstein, “Bring Modern: Christmas jumpers”, in The Independent
  2. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
  3. (US) 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. (plural, usually, jumpers) Rompers.
  5. (Australian rules football) The shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.

Proper noun capitalized: Jumper

Jumper (plural Jumpers)

  1. A surname.

Also used as

jumper is also the ellipsis of smokejumper.

jumper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu

jumper in Hindi

woolen sweater or pullover
जम्पर jampar

jumper in Tamil

ஜம்பர்

jumper in Marathi

उडी मारणारा

jumper in Urdu

woolen sweater or pullover
جمپر jampar
More languagesFewer languages
jumper in Bengali
জাম্পার jampar
jumper in Telugu
జంపర్, దూకేవాడు
jumper in Malayalam
ജമ്പർ, ചാടുന്നയാൾ
jumper in Kannada
ಜಿಗಿತಗಾರ, ಜಿಗಿತಗಾರ್ತಿ
jumper in Punjabi
ਜੰਪਰ
jumper in Gujarati
જમ્પર
jumper in Odia
ଜମ୍ପର, ଜମ୍ପର୍
jumper in Nepali
जम्पर, जंपर

Examples of jumper in a sentence

  • With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern.2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits:
  • He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers.2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic:

All 40 example sentences with jumper

Synonyms of jumper

Forms of jumper

Noun
pluraljumpers
Verb
third-person singular presentjumpers
present participlejumpering
past participlejumpered
pastjumpered
Proper noun
pluralJumpers

Plural of jumper: jumpers

Origin of jumper

From jump + -er.

From the term jump (“short coat”) + -er, originally in sailors' jargon, ultimately of uncertain origin. Jump is possibly from Scottish English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Middle English juype, gype, joupe, from Old French jupe, juppe, from Arabic جُبَّة (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with Middle Low German jōpe, gōpe (“waistcoat, jacket”), German Joppe (“jacket”). Alternatively, perhaps derived from jump.

Words formed from jumper

Phrases with jumper

Words that rhyme with jumper

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Questions about jumper

What does jumper mean?
Jumper means someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
What is jumper in Hindi?
Jumper in Hindi is जम्पर (jampar). See Jumper meaning in Hindi.
How do you use jumper in a sentence?
With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern.
What part of speech is jumper?
Jumper can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce jumper?
Jumper is pronounced /ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/ (UK).
What is the plural of jumper?
The plural of jumper is jumpers.

Words near jumper in the dictionary

  1. jumped upon
  2. jumped-start
  3. jumped-starts
  4. jumped-up
  5. jumpedst
  6. jumper
  7. jumper cable
  8. jumper cables
  9. jumper punch
  10. jumper punched
  11. jumper punches

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: jumper (page history and authors); Jumper (page history and authors); jumper (Tamil, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); jumper (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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