EGAVE

jumbo

About 0.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. adjective Especially large or powerful.
    a jumbo helping
  2. noun An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
  3. noun An elephant.
  4. noun A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
  5. noun A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
  6. noun Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
  7. noun A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
  8. noun Ellipsis of mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”).

Similar words

giant gargantuan big large elephantine huge jack syncytial elephant crabmeat

Often followed by

jet jets shrimp and of was is to in

Word family

jumbos

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