jumper cable
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jumper cable
noun jumper cables
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A pair of insulated electrical wires with alligator clips at each end (typically used to jump-start a car with a dead (flat) battery).
He kept a jumper cable in an emergency box in the car, as he had once been caught with a dead battery.
Similar: booster cable, starter cable, jump lead
- An electrical cable providing a connection between rail or road vehicles. When in multiple the control between the locomotives is through jumper cables, and air and vacuum hoses.
- A jump wire.
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noun cable for jump-starting
| Español | cable de arranque, jumper (yámper, yómper), tenazas de puenteo |
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| Français | câble de démarrage, câble à booster |
| Deutsch | Starthilfekabel |
| Italiano | cavi d'avviamento |
| Русский | про́вод прику́ривания próvod prikúrivanija, прику́риватель prikúrivatelʹ, ста́ртер-ка́бель stárter-kábelʹ |
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