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jumper cables

jumper cables is the plural of jumper cable.

Meaning of jumper cable

Noun

jumper cable (plural jumper cables)

  1. (often pluralized) A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
    • He kept a jumper cable in an emergency box in the car, as he had once been caught with a dead battery.
  2. An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles.
    • When in multiple the control between the locomotives is through jumper cables, and air and vacuum hoses.1958 April, “British Railways First Main-Line Diesel-Hydraulic Locomotive”, in Railway Magazine, pages 267, 277
  3. (Philippines) A jump wire.

Questions about jumper cables

What is jumper cables the plural of?
Jumper cables is the plural of jumper cable.

Words near jumper cables in the dictionary

  1. jumped-starts
  2. jumped-up
  3. jumpedst
  4. jumper
  5. jumper cable
  6. jumper cables
  7. jumper punch
  8. jumper punched
  9. jumper punches
  10. jumper punching
  11. jumper's knee

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