jumbo
About 0.60 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Especially large or powerful.
a jumbo helping
- noun An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
- noun An elephant.
- noun A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
- noun A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
- noun Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”).
- noun A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
- 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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