Definitions for Jumbo

Jumbo jum·bo

Spelling: [juhm-boh]
IPA: /ˈdʒʌm boʊ/

Jumbo is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 21 points.

You can make 30 anagrams from letters in Jumbo (bjmou).

Definitions for Jumbo

noun

  1. a very large person, animal, or thing.
  2. jumbo jet.
  3. U.S. Nautical. a forestaysail having a boom (jumbo 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.

adjective

  1. very large:

Origin of Jumbo

First recorded in 1800-10; origin uncertain; popularized as the name of a large elephant purchased and exhibited by P.T. Barnum in 1882

Examples for Jumbo

jumbo mentioned that he had found an A T O cow dead by a water-hole.

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

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

On a jumbo screen at his election headquarters in Tampa was a huge sign screaming, “46 States to Go.”

You could get that sarsaparilla across the bar at the Bird Cage, couldn't you, jumbo?

The likely delivery method for the electronic elements of this attack would be an unmanned aerial vehicle the size of a jumbo jet.

Yet there was no better line-rider in the Panhandle than jumbo Wilkins.

Ay, she'd know her anywhere—by the rust on her jumbo she would—the Ligonier.

He contrived to say it so offensively that jumbo flushed with anger.

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

Word Value for Jumbo
Scrable

16

Words with friends

21

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