Counterjumper

Origin

counter + jumper

Alternative forms

• counter-jumper

Full definition of counterjumper

Noun

1. (slang, derogatory, dated) A salesman in a shop; a shopman or clerk.
• 1919, William Somerset Maugham, ,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.