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high jumper
noun
, Track.
- a participant in the high jump.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of high jumper1
First recorded in 1895–1900
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Example Sentences
But wherever his abilities lay, it was plain that the red-headed boy had not been cut out by nature for a high jumper.
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"I'm no high-jumper, I guess," he laughed, as he quit the line of contestants.
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Matador, the celebrated Belgian high jumper, can do the Spanish trot like a circus horse.
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He was a fair high-jumper, usually certain of third place in the Dual Meet.
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If you keep on improving as you've done lately, you'll make a high-jumper in a hundred more years, old top!
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