counterjumper

[ koun-ter-juhm-per ]

noun

, Slang: Older Use.

1. a clerk in a retail store.

Word History and Origins

Origin of counterjumper¹

First recorded in 1820–30; counter ¹ + jumper ¹

Example Sentences

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

Come, Mr. Shopwalker, Counterjumper, or whatever you really are, what have you got to say for yourself?

From Project Gutenberg

Uncle Matthew had said that he broke the window as a protest against a counterjumper's traffic in a nation's grief.

From Project Gutenberg