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jum⋅bo

  [juhm-boh] noun, plural -bos, adjective Informal.
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–noun
1. a very large person, animal, or thing.
2. jumbo jet.
3. U.S. Nautical.
a. a forestaysail having a boom (jumbo boom) along its foot, used esp. on schooners.
b. a sail used in place of a course on a square-rigged ship, having the form of an isosceles triangle set apex downward.
c. a narrow triangular sail set point downward in place of a foresail on a topsail schooner.
–adjective
4. very large: the jumbo box of cereal.
Origin:
1800–10; orig. uncert.; popularized as the name of a large elephant purchased and exhibited by P.T. Barnum in 1882
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jumbo jet

 
–noun
a widebody jet airliner.
Also, jumbo.

Origin:
1960–65
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jum·bo   (jŭm'bō)   
n.   pl. jum·bos
An unusually large person, animal, or thing.
adj.  Unusually large: jumbo shrimp; a jumbo jet.

[After Jumbo, a large elephant exhibited by P.T. Barnum, probably from slang, clumsy person.]
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