jumbo

jum·bo  (jmb)

n. pl. jum·bos

An unusually large person, animal, or thing.

adj.

Unusually large: jumbo shrimp; a jumbo jet.

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[After Jumbo, a large elephant exhibited by P.T. Barnum, probably from slang, clumsy person.]

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jumbo

Adjective

Brit, Austral & NZ informal very large: jumbo prawns

Noun

pl -bos

short for jumbo jet [after a famous elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum]

Thesaurus

Adj.

1.

jumbo - of great mass; huge and bulky; "a jumbo jet"; "jumbo shrimp" elephantine, gargantuan, giant big, large - above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent; "a large city"; "set out for the big city"; "a large sum"; "a big (or large) barn"; "a large family"; "big businesses"; "a big expenditure"; "a large number of newspapers"; "a big group of scientists"; "large areas of the world"

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jumbo

adjective giant, large, huge, immense, mega (informal) gigantic, oversized, elephantine, ginormous (informal) humongous or humungous U.S. (slang) << OPPOSITE tiny

Translations

jumbo [ˈdʒʌmbəu] adj (also: jumbo jet) → (avion) gros porteur (à réaction);

jumbo size → format maxi or extra-grand

jumbo [ˈdʒʌmbəu] adj jumbo jet → jumbo-jet m inv;

jumbo size → formato gigante