jumper

CEFRA2

/ˈd͡ʒʌmpə/

noun

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In plain English

01
noun
A person who jumps.
02
noun
Extra detail
A person who attempts suicide by jumping from a great height.

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At a glance

Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

A short length of electrical conductor, to make a temporary connection.
Someone or something that jumps, e.g. a participant in a jumping event in track or skiing.
An electrical connection between the vehicles of a train, usually a passenger train; a jumper cable.

In context

Significantly more cervical spine injuries were seen in fallers as opposed to jumpers.
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.
This is an extremely hard to find platform jumper centered around everyone's favorite dot eating hero.

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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
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
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 26, “New Electric Trains for Mersey Lines”, in Railway Magazine, page 852
[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
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

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