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Definition jumper

Etymology 1

jump +‎ -er

Noun

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.
3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
4. A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
5. 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.
6. (US) A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
7. (arachnology, informal) A jumping spider
8. The larva of the cheese fly.
9. (historical, 18th century) One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
10. (horology) A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
11. (basketball) A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
12. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

Verb

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

1. To connect with an electrical jumper.

Etymology 2

From the term jump (“short coat”) in sailors' jargon, probably from Scots English jupe (“man's loose jacket or tunic”), from Old French, from Arabic ??????‎ (jubba); see also jibba. Cognate with German Joppe.

Noun

jumper (plural jumpers)

1. (chiefly Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A woolen sweater or pullover.
2. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
3. 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.
4. (usually as jumpers) Rompers.

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