jumper lead

1. 1.

   a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire

   “it was a tangle of jumper cables and clip leads”

   Synonymsjumper cableleadbooster cable

   Broaderjumperwire

   Narrowerclip lead

Questions about jumper lead

What does jumper lead mean?

jumper lead means "a jumper that consists of a short piece of wire".

What is another word for jumper lead?

Close synonyms include jumper cable, lead, booster cable. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is jumper lead a common word?

jumper lead is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.