counterjumper
nounEtymology From counter + jumper.
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Dated, Derogatory, Slang A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
- [...] 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.1905, W. Somerset Maugham, chapter V, in The Merry-Go-Round:
- 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.1919, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, “ch. 15”, in The Moon and Sixpence, [New York, N.Y.]: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers […], →OCLC: