[juhm-per] 
| 1. | a person or thing that jumps. |
| 2. | Basketball. jump shot. |
| 3. | Sports. a participant in a jumping event, as in track or skiing. |
| 4. | Manège. a horse specially trained to jump obstacles. |
| 5. | a boring tool or device worked with a jumping motion. |
| 6. | Also called jump wire. Electricity. a short length of conductor used to make a connection, usually temporary, between terminals of a circuit or to bypass a circuit. |
| 7. | Also called jumper cable. booster cable. |
| 8. | a kind of sled. |
| 9. | Also called jumper stay. Nautical. a line preventing the end of a spar or boom from being lifted out of place. |
| 10. | any of various fishes that leap from the water, as the striped mullet or jumprock. |
[juhm-per] | 1. | 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. |
| 2. | a loose outer jacket worn esp. by workers and sailors. |
| 3. | British. a pullover sweater. |
| 4. | jumpers, rompers. |
| either of a pair of electric cables having clamps at each end and used for starting the engine of a vehicle whose battery is dead. |
| jump·er 1 (jŭm'pər) n.
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| jump·er 2 (jŭm'pər) n.
[Probably from jump, short coat, perhaps from obsolete jup, bodice, from obsolete French juppe, from Old French jupe, jube, from Italian giuppa, giubba, from Arabic jubba, long garment with wide open sleeves, from jabba, to cut; see gbb in Semitic roots.] |
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