Usually means: Exceptionally large size or quantity.
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  1. jumbo: Merriam-Webster
  2. jumbo: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. jumbo: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. jumbo: Collins English Dictionary
  5. jumbo: Vocabulary.com
  6. Jumbo, jumbo: Wordnik
  7. jumbo: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. jumbo: Wiktionary
  9. jumbo: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. jumbo: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. jumbo: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. jumbo: Dictionary.com
  13. jumbo (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. jumbo: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Jumbo (Bee Gees song), Jumbo (Tintin comics), Jumbo (actor), Jumbo (band), Jumbo (disambiguation), Jumbo (elephant), Jumbo (film), Jumbo (hypermarket), Jumbo (hypermarkets), Jumbo (magazine), Jumbo (musical), Jumbo (song), Jumbo (supermarket), Jumbo: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. jumbo: Rhymezone
  17. jumbo: FreeDictionary.org
  18. jumbo: Robb: Swahili English
  19. jumbo: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. Jumbo: The Word Detective
  21. jumbo: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Jumbo: World Wide Words
  23. jumbo: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. jumbo: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. JUMBO: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. jumbo: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. jumbo, jumbo: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. jumbo: Urban Dictionary

Tech (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  2. Jumbo: Glossary of Insulator Terms
  3. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)
  4. Jumbo: Latitude Mexico

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Especially large or powerful.
noun:  An especially large or powerful person, animal, or thing.
noun:  (Kenya) An elephant.
noun:  (engineering) A platform-mounted machine for drilling rock.
noun:  (British English) A large airplane, such as those used for intercontinental travel.
noun:  (Western Pennsylvania) Synonym of bologna (“type of meat”)
noun:  A wide roll of machine-trimmed paper, ready to be cut into smaller widths.
noun:  (paganism, historical) Short for mumbo jumbo (“a deity or other supernatural being worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol representing such a being”). [(historical) A deity or other supernatural being said to have been worshipped by certain West African peoples; an idol.]

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