| 单词 | jumbo |
| 释义 | jumbo /jum"boh/, n. , pl. jumbos, adj. Informal. n. 1. a very large person, animal, or thing. 2. See jumbo jet. 3. U.S. Naut. a. a forestaysail having a boom (jumbo boom) along its foot, used esp. on schooners. b. a sail used in place of a course on a square-rigged ship, having the form of an isosceles triangle set apex downward. c. a narrow triangular sail set point downward in place of a foresail on a topsail schooner. adj. 4. very large: the jumbo box of cereal. [1800-10; orig. uncert.; popularized as the name of a large elephant purchased and exhibited by P.T. Barnum in 1882] |
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