Meaning of counterjumper | Babel Free

Definitions

A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.

dated, derogatory, slang

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Examples

“[...] and the chastest women thought it no shame for their pictures to be exposed in every stationer's shop or to decorate the chimney-piece of a platonic counter-jumper.”

“Her manner was brisk, and her good-breeding scarcely concealed her conviction that if you were not a soldier you might as well be a counter-jumper.”

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