jumbo

Meanings

1. 1
   adj

   unusually large in size

   They ordered a jumbo bucket of popcorn to share during the film.

Popularized by 'Jumbo', the name of a famously large elephant exhibited by P. T. Barnum in the 1880s; the name itself is of uncertain origin, perhaps from a West African word for 'elephant' or from 'mumbo-jumbo'.

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