bumper jack

plural bumper jacks

1. largely historicalautomotiveA jack designed to lift a car by its bumper.

   On level ground a safer alternative to the ordinary bumper jack is the kind with one or more legs.

   1971 April, “Buy an auto jack that won’t let you down”, in Changing Times, The Kiplinger Magazine

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   For us old timers; I removed their bumper jack. I placed the base under the back bumper and inserted the long notched pole into it.

   2012, Larry Wade Livingston, “Thank you; but!”, in Short Stories from My Heart, page 57