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the garment, the trade, the daredevil, and the wire — one word, four lives
means A jumper is one who or that which jumps — whether a sweater pulled over the head, a person who leaps, a daredevil diving from heights, or a short wire connecting two points in a circuit.
from From the verb 'jump,' itself a word of uncertain origin that surfaced in the 16th century, possibly imitative — the sound of a sudden bound. The garment 'jumper,' though, likely came by a different road: probably from 'jump' or 'jumpe,' an old word for a short loose coat or jacket, which may trace back through dialect to the French 'jupe' (a skirt or tunic), itself borrowed from Arabic 'jubba,' a long garment. So the sweater you tug on and the cliff-diver who tugs at fate may share only a spelling, not a single ancestor — two lives that grew into one word.
- two languages
- sweater in Britain, sleeveless dress in America
- etymology
- from jupe, an old word for loose jacket
- car rescue
- jumper cables borrow life from another battery
- checkers move
- a piece that leaps and captures opponents
- horse sport
- show jumpers clear fences over five feet high
chris kelly bbc presenter — blue peter presenter who wore distinctive knitwear and made diy items in 1970s-80s
steve biko south african — anti-apartheid activist who died in police custody in 1977, subject of the film 'cry freedom'
broad peak k2 climber — ski jumper eddie the eagle edwards who competed in 1988 winter olympics despite minimal training