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- noun Plural form of
high-jumper .
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Examples
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"Them's the high-jumpers," said the first baggageman.
CHAPTER XXIII 2010
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It's likely that receivers Jordan Bishop and Obum Gwacham will both compete in the Pac-10 championships as 7-foot high-jumpers, and the Beavers could put together a competitive 4-by-100 relay team.
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There were the greyhounds, the high-jumpers and wide-leapers.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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I have no doubt that, if you set your mind to it and had enough time and enough political power, you could breed a race of superior body-builders, or high-jumpers, or shot-putters; pearl fishers, sumo wrestlers, or sprinters; or I suspect, although now with less confidence because there are no animal precedents superior musicians, poets, mathematicians or wine-tasters.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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I have no doubt that, if you set your mind to it and had enough time and enough political power, you could breed a race of superior body-builders, or high-jumpers, or shot-putters; pearl fishers, sumo wrestlers, or sprinters; or I suspect, although now with less confidence because there are no animal precedents superior musicians, poets, mathematicians or wine-tasters.
THE GREATEST SHOW ON EARTH RICHARD DAWKINS 2009
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"Them's the high-jumpers," said the first baggageman.
Chapter 23 1917
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There were the greyhounds, the high-jumpers and wide-leapers.
Chapter 26 1917
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Punk was the only Lakerimmer on the team that attempted to win glory on the flying-rings, but he and his brother Kingstonians suffered a like humiliation with the standing high-jumpers.
The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914
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The men that the college remembers and cherishes are not ball-players, and boat-racers, and high-jumpers, and boxers, and fencers, and heroes of single-stick, good fellows as they are, but the patriots and scholars and poets and orators and philosophers.
Ars Recte Vivendi; Being Essays Contributed to "The Easy Chair" George William Curtis 1858
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Despite their reputation for championship leaping, bunnies are not high-jumpers; they're hurdlers.
unknown title 2009
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