jumbo
jumbo Lexical Profile
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• adjective
Unusually or exceptionally large in size, quantity, or capacity, especially in comparison to standard versions of the same item.
"The restaurant served a platter of jumbo shrimp with a side of melted garlic butter."
• noun
A very large person, animal, or object; something of a notably larger size than usual.
"When sorting the fresh eggs by weight, the farmer placed all the jumbos into separate cartons."
A very large wide-body commercial jet airliner, especially the Boeing 747.
"Hundreds of passengers boarded the transoceanic jumbo for the long flight from London to Tokyo."
• Rhymes for jumbo
Word Origin & Etymology
Popularized in the 1880s from the name of Jumbo, a famous, exceptionally large African bush elephant exhibited at the London Zoo and later acquired by American showman P. T. Barnum.