Dictionary Definition
jumper
Noun
1 an athlete who competes at jumping
3 a small connector used to make temporary
electrical connections
4 a loose jacket or blouse worn by workmen
6 a player releases the basketball at the high
point of a jump [syn: jump
shot]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌmpə(r)
Noun
Derived terms
Translations
someone or something that jumps
- Finnish: hyppääjä
woolen sweater or pullover
short length of electrical conductor
- Finnish: jumpperi
- Russian: перемычка (p'er'emýčka)
removable connecting pin (electronics)
- Finnish: oikosulkupala, jumpperi (colloquial)
- Russian: джампер (džámp'er)
Extensive Definition
Jumper may refer to:
Clothing
- Sweater, a heavy shirt usually made from wool
- Jumper dress, a sleeveless, collarless dress
- Part of a United States Navy uniform
Media and entertainment
- Jumper
(novel), a novel by Steven Gould
- Jumper (film), a film adaptation of the novel
- Jumper: Griffin's Story, a video game based on the film
- "Jumper" (song), a song by Third Eye Blind
- Jumpers, a play by Tom Stoppard
- Puddle jumper, a spacecraft in the fictional Stargate universe
- "Jumpers", a song by Sleater-Kinney on the album The Woods
Other meanings
- Jumper (computing), an electrical connector
- Jumper (suicide), a person who kills himself by jumping from a height
- Citroën Jumper, an Italian van
- Jump shot (basketball)
- A person who participates in parachuting
- A type of horse used for show jumping
jumper in Spanish: Jumper
jumper in German: Jumper (Begriffsklärung)
jumper in French: Jumper
jumper in Dutch: Jumper
jumper in Japanese: ジャンパー
jumper in Norwegian: Jumper
jumper in Polish: Jumper
jumper in Russian: Джемпер
(значения)
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
amateur athlete, archer, athlete, baby clothes, baby
linen, ballplayer,
baseballer, baseman, batter, battery, blocking back, bowman, broad jumper, bucking
bronco, buckjumper,
catcher, center, coach, competitor, creepers, cricketer, deep-sea diver,
defensive lineman, diver,
end, flea, footballer, free diver,
frog, frogman, games-player, gamester, gazelle, goat, grasshopper, guard, high jumper, hopper, hurdle racer, hurdler, infielder, jackrabbit, jock, jumpers, jumping bean, jumping
jack, kangaroo,
layette, leaper, lineman, offensive lineman,
outfield, outfielder, parachute jumper,
pearl diver, player,
plunger, pole vaulter,
poloist, professional
athlete, pugilist,
quarterback,
racer, rompers, salmon, scuba diver, skater, skin diver, sky diver,
snorkel diver, sport,
sportsman, stag, sunfisher, swaddle, swaddling clothes,
tackle, tailback, timber topper,
toxophilite,
vaulter, wingback, wrestler