counterjumper
English
Alternative forms
Noun
counterjumper (plural counterjumpers)
- (slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
- 1905, W. Somerset Maugham, The Merry-Go-Round, ch. 5
- [...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 15
- Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.
- 1905, W. Somerset Maugham, The Merry-Go-Round, ch. 5
Translations
a salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for counterjumper in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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