counterjumper

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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Dated; Derogatory; Slang

"[...] 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."

From counter + jumper.

counterjumpers (plural) counter-jumper (alternative)

sales clerk

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