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jumbo

adjective as in gigantic

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On jumbo screens at each end of the hall, we watch our votes being tabulated — arrived at collectively, one per table.

Such declarations are par for the course here, and their mixture of mumbo-jumbo and outright certainty is enough to make one frequently chuckle.

Cleaned of any shell, jumbo lump crab is first dredged in a mix of eggs, mayonnaise, lemon juice and hot sauce.

“Hi Mommy, Y in the sky,” he says, expecting me to respond “T in the sky”—clearly mumbo-jumbo to outsiders, though it makes perfect sense to me.

From Quartz

All the market segments covered by our subindexes increased over the month, notably government and jumbo indexes.

As the driver bios appeared on the jumbo screen, I flashed a toothy grin after noticing that two of them were women.

Please go to BobQ2014.com for details and all that attorney mumbo-jumbo.

They're always trying to upsell you on that jumbo popcorn bucket at the movies.

This was appropriate because just like her jumbo soda, her twenty minute speech was filled with empty calories.

It's really twisted and sick mumbo-jumbo to try to pass this off as part of God's plan.

He had leaped very smartly to this point of vantage, nevertheless he found Jumbo there before him, chattering worse than ever!

Had his legs been longer, Fred Greenwood would have pronounced him the equal of Jumbo himself.

Thereupon he asked me, even as you did some time ago, what I meant by Mumbo Jumbo?

Me Jumbo—come to lay breakfast, and cappen say you hab what you like ask for, especially someting nice for de young lady.

They kept up the jumbo sail, as the main jib is called; they reefed the foresail down to its smallest compass.

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On this page you'll find 48 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to jumbo, such as: colossal, oversized, cyclopean, elephantine, giant, and huge.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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