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jack jumper en · NOUN
Meanings
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(Australia) Any of various small species of ant of the genus Myrmecia, often capable of jumping and having a painful sting.
Glancing back at Hordern's gravestone, I saw that the absent metal letters exposed a pattern of nail holes like woodworm. A jack-jumper ant crawled over his age – he was 63 – and disappeared into the nettles.
2004, Nicholas Shakespeare, In Tasmania, Harvill Press, p. 261
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jumper