jumbo
- adjective
- /ˈdʒʌmboʊ/
- The circus featured a jumbo elephant that amazed the crowd with its size.
- jumbo shrimp
Then you get, I don't know, a jumbo saveloy, and you go.
- Then you get, I don't know, a jumbo saveloy, and you go.
- And maybe because it's the jumbo size I'll share with Daiquan.
- I love these CoverGirl lip perfection jumbo gloss bombs.
- This is the new cover girl lip perfection jumbo gloss bomb.
- I like to do a little bit of blueberries and blackberries because the GMO jumbo blackberries that were at Costco this weekend, I'm sorry.
- So I went to go buy it and then I saw this is the Bare Minerals original foundation in a jumbo form.
- And then we like go over to it and it's, it's the claw, but it's a jumbo size and the door is like a foot by a foot wide.
Examples
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Remember how big those drinks were in those days, they were jumbo size.
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Why steal a car when you can steal a big, jumbo rocket ship?
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Today we're going to make jumbo brownies.
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I love these CoverGirl lip perfection jumbo gloss bombs.
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She ordered a jumbo burger that was so large it barely fit in her hands.
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The new jumbo screen at the stadium allowed everyone to see the game clearly.
Synonyms
Very large and heavy
Larger than normal and often too big for its use
Very large, much bigger than usual
Very large and much bigger than usual
Being large and heavy in size or build
Very large, heavy, and clumsy
About the same size as a bear and very heavy
Very large, often said in a playful way
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Compounds
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Jumbo comes from the name of a famous elephant called Jumbo, who was very large and toured Europe and America in the 1800s. People began using his name to describe anything very big, so today jumbo means 'very large'.