Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A firefighter who drops by parachute into a forest fire.
Wiktionary
- n. a firefighter who parachutes into a remote area to combat wildfires.
Examples
“Forest Service's elite "smokejumper" firefighters, he was in charge of putting out the blazes across the sprawling region.”
“He's also my hero because when he retired he was the oldest smokejumper ever in U.S. history.”
“Murry Taylor isn't just my role model because he wrote the bestselling Jumping Fire published by Harcourt in 2000, a memoir of his experiences as a smokejumper.”
“I was never a smokejumper, but rather worked on an elite, Type-1 Hotshot crew.”
“But most of the book's characters -- while still close to and often in communion with nature -- live more settled lives than that of a smokejumper.”
“Clara's love interest, a retired smokejumper named Paul, doesn't hesitate to recount old fire stories and tells Clara that smokejumpers live life the way it's meant to be lived -- as an adventure.”
“Taylor has proven himself as an athlete and smokejumper, as well as a memoirist.”
“In Alaska, temperature records are tumbling and wildfires are raging in an unprecedented early start to the 2010 Alaskan fire season that has already witnessed 193 fires and emptied every smokejumper base in the state.”
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“People questioned my motives when I became a smokejumper again.”
“A smokejumper had been brought into the first-aid tent.”
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