jumper

plural jumpers

1. Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
2. A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

   Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.

   2016, Michael P. Burke, Forensic Pathology of Fractures and Mechanisms of Injury

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   Field: Be advised we have jumpers, K, jumpers. Dispatch: Alright, Division 1, be advised, Battalion 2 advised we have jumpers from the World Trade Center, K.

   2001 September 11, New York City Fire Department, 11:37 from the start, in Response Tape 1 Side A, 8:46-9:31, The New York Times, archived from the original on 25 Feb 2021

   With the jumpers and the drowners, McGee, you don't pick up a pattern. That's because a jumper damned near always makes it the first time, and a drowner is usually almost as successful, about the same rate as hangers.

   2017, Ronald V. Clarke, Suicide: Closing the Exits

3. A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.

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   Synonyms: jump wire

4. rail transportAn electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.

   For coupling between the cars of a three-car set 19 core jumpers are provided for control and auxiliary train cables, a positive bus line, and an auxiliary power jumper for heating circuits.

   1956 December 28, “New Electric Trains for Mersey Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 852

5. businessA removable connecting pin on an electronic circuit board.
6. 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.
7. USA crude kind of sleigh, usually a simple box on runners which are in one piece with the poles that form the thills.

   a jumper was found prepared to receive Mrs. Willoughby ; and the horse being led by the Captain himself , a passage through the forest was effected as far as the head of the Otsego

   1843, James Fenimore Cooper, Wyandotte

8. informalarachnologyA jumping spider.
9. The larva of the cheese fly.
10. historicalobsoleteOne of certain Calvinistic Methodists in Wales whose worship was characterized by violent convulsions.
11. hobbiesA spring to impel the starwheel, or a pawl to lock fast a wheel, in a repeating timepiece.
12. ball gamesA shot in which the player releases the ball at the highest point of a jump; a jump shot.

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    [Markieff] Morris isn’t quite the post-up threat that [Enes] Kanter is, and he can play both the 4 spot and 5 spot instead of just center, like Kanter. He is capable of playing a similar way, backing defenders down in the post. He prefers getting his buckets there with a bevy of fade-aways and jumpers. He’s a heat checker. And he can get hot on the block.

    2019 February 25, Brett Dawson, Fred Katz, “How power forward Markieff Morris might fit in with the Thunder”, in The Athletic

13. A nuclear power plant worker who repairs equipment in areas with extremely high levels of radiation.

    In nuclear plants, robots toil for hours at a time in highly radioactive areas in place of hundreds of employees, called jumpers or glowboys, who worked in short relays so as to minimize their exposure.

    1987 September 14, Gene Bylinskey, “Invasion of the service robots”, in Fortune

14. video gamesA platform game based around jumping.

    This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

    2002, Andy Slaven, Video Game Bible, 1985-2002, page 161

15. abbreviationellipsisEllipsis of smokejumper.

present singular third person jumpers · participle present jumpering · participle past jumpered · past jumpered

1. transitiveTo connect with an electrical jumper.

plural jumpers

1. AustraliaNew ZealandUKA woollen sweater or pullover.

   The hideous holiday jumper became a big trend in the 1980s, influenced as we were by the TV-am gang, Gordon the Gopher and memories of Andy Williams singing to girls as they walked by on his Christmas specials. (Can't blame 'em, given he was wearing one of his knitted monstrosities.)

   2012 December 16, Robert Epstein, “Bring Modern: Christmas jumpers”, in The Independent

2. A loose outer jacket, especially one worn by workers and sailors.
3. USA one-piece, sleeveless dress, or a skirt with straps and a complete or partial bodice, usually worn over a blouse by women and children; pinafore.
4. pluralusuallyjumpersRompers.
5. Australian rules footballThe shirt worn by the players; a guernsey.

plural Jumpers

1. A surname.