Definition of "jumbo" []

• An unusually large person, animal, or thing. (noun)
• Unusually large: jumbo shrimp; a jumbo jet. (adjective)

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• "David Wondrich, an American cocktail historian, speculated in Esquire magazine that it may have been named after P.T. Barnum's famous elephant, which gave rise to the word jumbo as a synonym for huge."
• "He says, flatly, that the jumbo is the greatest big-game animal on earth, and that he loved to hunt them."
• "If you have what they call a jumbo loan, you could get help from the economic stimulus package."