colloq. [f. COUNTER sb.3 + JUMPER.] lit. One who jumps over a counter: applied in contempt to a shopman or shopkeeper’s assistant.

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1841.  S. Warren, Ten Thous. a-Year, I. i. 3. They … know that I’m only a tallow-faced counter-jumper.

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1880.  Miss Braddon, Just as I am (Tauchn.), I. xx. 214. I don’t want to see my daughter spinning round a public assembly-room in the arms of any counterjumper.

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  So Counter-jumping vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

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1847.  Alb. Smith, Chr. Tadpole, xl. (1879), 345. What right has he to call me a counter-jumping snob, then?

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1875.  Hamerton, Intell. Life, VIII. i. 279. Blinds them to the æsthetic beauty or grandeur which may be as perfectly compatible with what is disdainfully called ‘counter-jumping.’

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