jumbo
noun/ˈdʒʌmbəʊ/
/ˈdʒʌmbəʊ/
(plural jumbos)
(also jumbo jet)
- a large plane that can carry several hundred passengers, especially a Boeing 747Topics Transport by airc1Word Originearly 19th cent. (originally of a person): probably the second element of mumbo-jumbo. Originally denoting a large and clumsy person, the term became popular as the name of an elephant at London Zoo, which was sold in 1882 to the Barnum and Bailey circus.
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