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jumbo

/juhm-boh/US // ˈdʒʌm boʊ //UK // (ˈdʒʌmbəʊ) //

巨型,特大号,巨无霸,巨型号

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural jum·bos.

    • : a very large person, animal, or thing.
    • : jumbo jet.
    • : U.S. Nautical. a forestaysail having a boom along its foot, used especially on schooners.a sail used in place of a course on a square-rigged ship, having the form of an isosceles triangle set apex downward.a narrow triangular sail set point downward in place of a foresail on a topsail schooner.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : very large: the jumbo box of cereal.

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Examples

  • On jumbo screens at each end of the hall, we watch our votes being tabulated — arrived at collectively, one per table.

  • Such declarations are par for the course here, and their mixture of mumbo-jumbo and outright certainty is enough to make one frequently chuckle.

  • Cleaned of any shell, jumbo lump crab is first dredged in a mix of eggs, mayonnaise, lemon juice and hot sauce.

  • “Hi Mommy, Y in the sky,” he says, expecting me to respond “T in the sky”—clearly mumbo-jumbo to outsiders, though it makes perfect sense to me.

  • All the market segments covered by our subindexes increased over the month, notably government and jumbo indexes.

  • As the driver bios appeared on the jumbo screen, I flashed a toothy grin after noticing that two of them were women.

  • Please go to BobQ2014.com for details and all that attorney mumbo-jumbo.

  • They're always trying to upsell you on that jumbo popcorn bucket at the movies.

  • This was appropriate because just like her jumbo soda, her twenty minute speech was filled with empty calories.

  • It's really twisted and sick mumbo-jumbo to try to pass this off as part of God's plan.

  • He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!

  • Had his legs been longer, Fred Greenwood would have pronounced him the equal of Jumbo himself.

  • Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo?

  • Me Jumbo—come to lay breakfast, and cappen say you hab what you like ask for, especially someting nice for de young lady.

  • They kept up the jumbo sail, as the main jib is called; they reefed the foresail down to its smallest compass.