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counterjumper
[ koun-ter-juhm-per ]
noun
Slang: Older Use.
- a clerk in a retail store.
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of counterjumper1
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From counterjumper in a Pennsylvania village grocery store at 16, he jumped tJ the presidency of Carnegie Steel Co. at 35, three years later sold Carnegie to a Morgan syndicate and became the $2,000,000-a-year chairman of U. S. Steel Corp.
Come, Mr. Shopwalker, Counterjumper, or whatever you really are, what have you got to say for yourself?
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Uncle Matthew had said that he broke the window as a protest against a counterjumper's traffic in a nation's grief.
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