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high jumper

noun

, Track.
  1. 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.

"I'm no high-jumper, I guess," he laughed, as he quit the line of contestants.

Matador, the celebrated Belgian high jumper, can do the Spanish trot like a circus horse.

He was a fair high-jumper, usually certain of third place in the Dual Meet.

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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