jumper

Meanings

Noun

• Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
• A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.
• A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection. Also jump wire.
• A removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
• 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.
• A crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.
• A jumping spider.
• The larva of the cheese fly.
• One of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
• A spring to impel the star wheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
• A shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.
• A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.
• A platform game based around jumping.
• A woolen sweater or pullover.
• A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
• 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.
• (usually as jumpers) Rompers.

Verb

• To connect with an electrical jumper.

Origin

• jump + -er
• From the term jump in sailors' jargon, probably from Scots English jupe, from Old French, from Arabic جُبَّة; see also jibba. Cognate with German Joppe.